Comparison of biostimulation versus bioaugmentation with bacterial strain PM1 for treatment of groundwater contaminated with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-322

  Smith, Amanda E ^a   Hristova, Krassimira ^a   Wood, Isaac ^a   Mackay, Doug M ^a   Lory, Ernie ^b   Lorenzana, Dale ^b   Scow, Kat M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Battalion Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaugmentation; Biodegradation; Bioremediation; Groundwater; In situ remediation; Microbial ecology; MTBE; Pollutants

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARCINOGENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHYL ETHERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLVENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 16244384666     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6939     Document Type: Article

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