Priming microbial meta-dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls that have persisted in Housatonic River sediments for decades

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3300-3307

  Van Dort, Heidi M ^a,b   Smullen, Lynn A ^a   May, Ralph J ^a   Bedard, Donna L ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MICROORGANISMS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

DECHLORINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL BIOREMEDIATION;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

AROCLOR; CHLORINE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; PCB; RIVER SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; DECHLORINATION; MICROORGANISM; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0343416377     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es970347a     Document Type: Article

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