Sulphide oxidation to elemental sulphur in a membrane bioreactor: Performance and characterization of the selected microbial sulphur-oxidizing community

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6-8, 2008, Pages 461-473

  Vannini, Claudia ^a   Munz, Giulio ^b   Mori, Gualtiero ^c   Lubello, Claudio ^b   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Consorzio Cuoiodepur Spa ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

"Thiobacillus baregensis"; Halothiobacillaceae; Halothiobacillus; Membrane bioreactors (MBR); Sulphide; Sulphur; Sulphur oxidizing bacteria; Thiovirga; Tios44 cluster; tios_434

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC SCREENING; HALOTHIOBACILLACEAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR MONITORING; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CELL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROBIA; CLOSTRIDIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOTHIOBACILLACEAE; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; MOLLICUTES; SPHINGOBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS BAREGENSIS; THIOVIRGA;

EID: 56349107788     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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