Arsenic, microbes and contaminated aquifers

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 45-49

  Oremland, Ronald S ^a   Stolz, John F ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; DRINKING WATER; IRON; MINERAL; WELL WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; AQUIFER; ARSENICOSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 12944320850     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.12.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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