Properties of a trichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-dechlorinating mixed culture with a Dehalococcoides as putative dechlorinating species

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-234

  Ballerstedt, Hendrik ^a,b   Hantke, Janina ^b   Bunge, Michael ^b   Werner, Birgit ^b   Gerritse, Jan ^a   Andreesen, Jan R ^b   Lechner, Ute ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorinated dibenzo p dioxin; Dehalococcoides; Reductive dehalogenation; Sulfurospirillum; Trichlorobenzene; Trichococcus

Indexed keywords

1,2,3 TRICHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; 1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2,4 TRICHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; DIOXIN; FUMARIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DECHLORINATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFUROMONAS; DILUTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIALES; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUROSPIRILLUM; TRICHOCOCCUS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SAALE RIVER;

ACETOBACTERIUM; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFUROMONAS; POSIBACTERIA; SULFUROSPIRILLUM; TRICHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0842325225     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00282-4     Document Type: Article

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