Use of metal-reducing bacteria for bioremediation of soil contaminated with mixed organic and inorganic pollutants

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 135-142

  Lee, Keun Young ^a,b   Bosch, Julian ^a   Meckenstock, Rainer U ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bioremediation; Geobacter metallireducens; Multiple contaminated soil; Toluene

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; IRON;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; INORGANIC COMPOUND; IRON OXIDE; LEACHING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOUTH KOREA;

ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOBACTER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINING; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS;

EID: 82355169697     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-011-9406-2     Document Type: Article

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