In situ treatment of PCBs by anaerobic microbial dechlorination in aquatic sediment: Are we there yet?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 482-488

  Sowers, Kevin R ^a   May, Harold D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC DEGRADATION; ANAEROBIC DECHLORINATION; ANAEROBIC MICROBIAL DECHLORINATION; ANOXIC ENVIRONMENT; CHLORINATED CONGENERS; MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); SOILS AND SEDIMENTS;

DECHLORINATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCATALYSIS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MESOCOSM; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOGENATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84878649081     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2012.10.004     Document Type: Review

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