Impacts of co-solvent flushing on microbial populations capable of degrading trichloroethylene

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-61

  Ramakrishnan, Vijayalakshmi ^a   Ogram, Andrew V ^a   Lindner, Angela S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Co solvent flushing; Methanotrophs; Particulate methane monooxygenase; Perchloroethylene; Soluble methane monooxygenase; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL RNA; GROUND WATER; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; RNA 16S; SULFATE; SULFITE REDUCTASE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ETHANOL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLVENTS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 12744262898     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6937     Document Type: Article

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