Diversity and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in activated sludge treating different types of wastewater

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1128-1133

  Baek, Kyunghwa ^a   Park, Chul ^b   Oh, Hee Mock ^a   Yoon, Byung Dae ^a   Kim, Hee Sik ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; PCR DGGE; Real time PCR; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMOA; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE DOSAGE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPER INDUSTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING;

AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETIC VARIATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 77954972875     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.0907.07021     Document Type: Article

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