Dechlorination of commercial PCBs and other multiple halogenated compounds by a sediment-free culture containing dehalococcoides and dehalobacter

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 10526-10534

  Wang, Shanquan ^a   He, Jianzhong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ,4 ,6-TRICHLOROPHENOL (2 ,4 ,6-TCP); CONTAMINATED SITES; HALOGENATED COMPOUNDS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; SEQUENCING ANALYSIS; TETRACHLOROETHENE;

BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; GENES; HALOGENATION; MIXTURES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; 2,4,6 TRICHLOROPHENOL; AROCLOR 1260; HALIDE; HALOGEN; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RNA 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINE; DECHLORINATION; DETOXIFICATION; PBDE; PCB; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT;

CHLORINE; CHLOROFLEXI; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; PEPTOCOCCACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84884266480     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4017624     Document Type: Article

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