Failure of the ammonia oxidation process in two pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants is linked to shifts in the bacterial communities

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 997-1006

  Wittebolle, L ^a   Boon, N ^a   Vanparys, B ^b   Heylen, K ^b   De Vos, P ^b   Verstraete, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Clustering; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Moving window analysis; Nitritation; Nucleotide sequence; Residual NH4+ N

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; CLUSTERINGS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MOVING WINDOW; MOVING WINDOW ANALYSE; NH 4 + N; NITRITATION; NUCLEOTIDES SEQUENCES; RESIDUAL NH4+-N; WINDOW ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RNA;

BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; RNA ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA;

EID: 27444443967     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2005.02731.x     Document Type: Article

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