Isolation and identification of moderately thermophilic acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacterium and its bioleaching characterization

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 222-227

  ZENG, Wei min ^a   WU, Chang bin ^a   ZHANG, Ru bing ^a   HU, Pei lei ^a   QIU, Guan zhou ^a   GU, Guo hua ^a   ZHOU, Hong bo ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

biochemical and physiological characteristics; chalcopyrite; moderately thermophilic acidophilic bacterium; phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLEACHING; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; GLUCOSE; SULFUR;

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA SEQUENCES; BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CELL DENSITIES; CHALCOPYRITE; ELEMENTAL SULFUR (ES); ENERGY SOURCING; H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION; JIANGXI PROVINCE; MODERATELY THERMOPHILIC ACIDOPHILIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; YEAST EXTRACT (YE);

IRON;

EID: 58649107680     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(08)60256-3     Document Type: Article

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