Nitrifying community structures and nitrification performance of full-scale municipal and swine wastewater treatment plants

Chemosphere

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 234-242

  Whang, Liang Ming ^a   Chien, I Chieh ^a   Yuan, Shi Lung ^a   Wu, Yi Juu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AOB; Community structure; Municipal; NOB; Swine; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

AOB; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MUNICIPAL; NOB; SWINE; T-RFLP;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLONING; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OXIDATION; RNA; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIG; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; SWINE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS MARINA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSPIRA; SUIDAE;

EID: 61849091415     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.11.059     Document Type: Article

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