Isolation and characterization of an arsenic-resistant bacterium from a bore-well in West Bengal, India

Annals of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-258

  Chowdhury, Rajdeep ^a   Sen, Asish K ^b   Karak, Prithviraj ^a   Chatterjee, Raghunath ^a   Giri, Ashok K ^a   Chaudhuri, Keya ^a  

^a Molecular and Human Genetics Division   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic resistance; Bacteria; Fatty acids; Gram positive; Planococcus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PLANOCOCCUS (BACTERIUM); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77951860615     PISSN: 15904261     EISSN: 18692044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178325     Document Type: Article

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