Uranium uptake by some locally isolated and some reference bacterial species

Acta Pharmaceutica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-105

  Tawfik, Zahira ^a   Abu Shady, Mohamed ^a   Haytham, Mohamed ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Uranium uptake

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; URANIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS PANTOTHENTICUS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS; CELL SURFACE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 17644388037     PISSN: 13300075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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