Enumeration and characterization of acidophilic microorganisms isolated from a pilot plant stirred-tank bioleaching operation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1936-1943

  Okibe, Naoko ^a   Gericke, Mariekie ^b   Hallberg, Kevin B ^a   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MINTEK   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; OXIDATION; RNA;

BIOLEACHING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

IRON; MINERAL; RNA 16S; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ACIDOPHILY; MICROORGANISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLEACHING; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; FERROPLASMA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROTROPHY; LEPTOSPIRILLUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PROKARYOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SULFOBACILLUS; TANK;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COPPER; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; THERMOPLASMALES;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FERROPLASMA; LEPTOSPIRILLUM; PROKARYOTA; SULFOBACILLUS; SULFOBACILLUS SP.;

EID: 0242668356     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.1936-1943.2003     Document Type: Article

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