Volatilization of mercury from natural water by a broad-spectrum Hg-resistant Bacillus pasteurii strain DR2

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Volatilization of mercury from natural water by a broad-spectrum Hg-resistant Bacillus pasteurii strain DR2

Kalipada Pahan¹, J. Chaudhuri², Debidas Ghosh³, R. Gachhui⁴, Stuart C. Ray, A. Mandal³ - Show less +2 more•Institutions (4)

Medical University of South Carolina¹, West Bengal State University², University of Calcutta³, Cleveland Clinic⁴

01 Sep 1996-The Environmentalist (Kluwer Academic Publishers)-Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 179-185

TL;DR: A broad spectrum mercury-resistant bacterial strain was isolated from contaminated water and was identified as Bacillus pasteurii strain DR2 as mentioned in this paper, which could volatilize Hg-compounds including organomercurials from its growth media.

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About: This article is published in The Environmentalist.The article was published on 1996-09-01. It has received None citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mercury (element).

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...The removal of mercury from waste-water and from mercury polluted soil samples has been studied by several workers (Rogers and James, 1979; Campanella et al., 1986), and bacteriamediated removal of aromatic compounds from soil and water has also been reported (Leshniowsky et al., 1970; Mahmood and Rama Rao, 1993; Bury and Miller, 1993)....
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...Exploitation of microorganisms to scavenge these pollutants has been suggested in many studies ( Leshniowsky et al., 1970; Summers and Silver, 1978; Bury and Miller, 1993)....
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