Distribution and rate of microbial processes in an ammonia-loaded air filter biofilm

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3705-3713

  Juhler, Susanne ^a   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^a   Herrmann, Martina ^a,b   Ottosen, Lars D M ^a   Nielsen, Lars Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; AEROBIC ACTIVITY; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; BATCH INCUBATION; BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA; IN-SITU; INLET CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL PROCESS; NITRIFYING BACTERIA; PRODUCT INHIBITION; PROTONATED; QUANTITATIVE PCR; TRICKLING FILTER; VOLATILE ORGANICS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTRATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NITRIFICATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AIR FILTERS;

AMMONIA;

AIRFLOW; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FILTRATION; HETEROTROPHY; INCUBATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE; OXIDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRFLOW; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; DENITRIFICATION; FILTER; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PIG FARMING; SENSOR; WATER SAMPLING;

AIR; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; FILTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SWINE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

NITROSOMONADALES; SUIDAE;

EID: 66249101610     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02612-08     Document Type: Article

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