Population dynamics of bacteria involved in enhanced biological phosphorus removal in Danish wastewater treatment plants

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1529-1544

  Mielczarek, Artur Tomasz ^a   Nguyen, Hien Thi Thu ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe Lund ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accumulibacter; Activated sludge; Competibacter; Correlations; Defluviicoccus; EBPR; GAO; PAO; Tetrasphaera

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBES; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACCUMULIBACTER; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; COMPETIBACTER; CORRELATIONS; DEFLUVIICOCCUS; EBPR; TETRASPHAERA;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT;

GLYCOGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

DENMARK;

CANDIDATUS COMPETIBACTER; TETRASPHAERA;

EID: 84873524368     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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