Microbial diversity of septic tank effluent and a soil biomat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3348-3351

  Tomaras, Jill ^a   Sahl, Jason W ^a   Siegrist, Robert L ^a   Spear, John R ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; ON-SITE WATER TREATMENT; SEPTIC TANK EFFLUENT;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEPTIC TANKS;

SOILS;

GROUND WATER; RNA 16S;

EFFLUENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; MICROORGANISM; RNA; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEPTIC TANK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL INFILTRATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPIRILLUM; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 66249137461     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00560-08     Document Type: Article

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