Resistance determinants of a highly arsenic-resistant strain of Leptospirillum ferriphilum isolated from a commercial biooxidation tank

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 2247-2253

  Tuffin, I Marla ^a   Hector, Stanton B ^a   Deane, Shelly M ^a   Rawlings, Douglas E ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIOLOGY; PYRITES;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARSENIC RESISTANCE GENES; BIOOXIDATION TANK; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; TRANSPOSON;

GENES;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE;

ARSENIC;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; TANK; TNATCARS GENE; TNLFARS GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ARSENATES; ARSENICALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOREACTORS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GOLD; IRON COMPOUNDS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM;

EID: 33644966656     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.2247-2253.2006     Document Type: Article

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