Isolation and identification of a novel strain of the genus Ochrobactrum with phenol-degrading activity.
A bacterial strain AS1 belonging to the genus Ochrobactrum, was isolated from an enriched phenol-activated sludge in Egypt. This strain grew aerobically on phenol as the sole carbon source using the meta-cleavage pathway at high phenol-degrading rates compared with those in a previous report.
El-Sayed
Wael S
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Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo 11566, Egypt. waelsme@yahoo.com
Ibrahim
Mohamed K
MK
Abu-Shady
Mohamed
M
El-Beih
Fawkia
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Ohmura
Naoya
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Saiki
Hiroshi
H
Ando
Akikazu
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