Isolation, characterization, and in situ detection of a novel chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium in wastewater biofilms growing under microaerophilic conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3122-3129

  Ito, Tsukasa ^a   Sugita, Kenichi ^a   Okabe, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CELL CULTURE; GENES; RNA; WASTEWATER;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SULFUR CYCLES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACETIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PROPIONIC ACID; RNA 16S; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEGGIATOA; BIOFILM; CARBON SOURCE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THIOBACILLUS; WASTE WATER;

BIOFILMS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SULFUR; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 2442696848     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3122-3129.2004     Document Type: Article

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