Potential of predominant activated sludge bacteria as recipients in conjugative plasmid transfer

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 600-605

  Inoue, Daisuke ^a   Sei, Kazunari ^a   Soda, Satoshi ^a   Ike, Michihiko ^a   Fujita, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aeration tank; conjugative plasmid transfer; physiological activity; predominant activated sludge bacteria

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYSIOLOGY; SEWAGE AERATION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; STRAIN; WASTEWATER;

AERATION TANKS; CONJUGATIVE PLASMID TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; PREDOMINANT ACTIVATED SLUDGE BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; PLASMIDS; SEWAGE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33645501153     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.100.600     Document Type: Article

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