Isolation of a bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to ethene

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5318, 1997, Pages 1568-1571

  Maymó Gatell, Xavier ^a   Chien, Yueh Tyng ^a   Gossett, James M ^b   Zinder, Stephen H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DECHLORINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARCINOGENS; CULTURE MEDIA; ETHYLENES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0344622120     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5318.1568     Document Type: Article

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