Development of an enumeration method for arsenic methylating bacteria from mixed culture samples

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 23-24, 2005, Pages 1885-1890

  Islam, S M Atiqul ^a   Fukushi, Kensuke ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic methylating bacteria; Methylarsine; Most probable number; Volatile derivatives of arsenic

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH KINETICS;

ARSENIC METHYLATING BACTERIA; METHYLARSINE; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; VOLATILE DERIVATIVES OF ARSENIC;

CELL CULTURE;

ARSENIC; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; EURYARCHAEOTA; FECES; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOREACTORS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATTLE; EURYARCHAEOTA; FECES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHANOBACTERIALES;

EID: 28444453702     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-005-3898-8     Document Type: Article

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