Bioremediation of arsenic-contaminated water: Recent advances and future prospects

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Bahar, Md Mezbaul ^a,b   Megharaj, Mallavarapu ^a,b   Naidu, Ravi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Arsenic; Arsenite oxidation; Bioremediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893136099     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1722-y     Document Type: Article

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