Plasmid-mediated bioaugmentation of activated sludge bacteria in a sequencing batch moving bed reactor using pNB2

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 242-247

  Bathe, Stephan ^a,c   Schwarzenbeck, N ^a   Hausner, M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 chloroaniline; Catabolic plasmid; Conjugation; Horizontal gene transfer; Wastewater; Xenobiotic

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

3-CHLOROANILINE; BIO-AUGMENTATION; CATABOLIC PLASMIDS; CHLOROANILINE; CONJUGATION; CONTROL REACTORS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; TESTOSTERONI; TRANSCONJUGANTS; XENOBIOTIC;

BACTERIA;

3 CHLOROANILINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATABOLISM; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 24144468189     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2005.01754.x     Document Type: Article

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