16S rRNA gene-based detection of tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating Desulfuromonas and Dehalococcoides species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1369-1374

  Löffler, Frank E ^a,b   Sun, Qing ^a   Li, Jieran ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DNA TEMPLATE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOCOCCOIDES ETHENOGENES; DESULFUROMONADALES; DESULFUROMONAS; DESULFUROMONAS CHLOROETHENICA; DESULFUROMONAS SP.; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0141919038     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1369-1374.2000     Document Type: Article

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