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Diversity of biosurfactant producing microorganisms isolated from soils contaminated with diesel oil.
Microbiological research - 1 Jan 2005
Menezes Bento Fátima, de Oliveira Camargo Flavio A, Okeke Benedict C, Frankenberger William T
Abstract excerpt
Biosurfactant production is a desirable property of hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms (HDM). We characterized biosurfactant producing microbial populations from a Long Beach soil, California (USA) and a Hong Kong soil (China), contaminated with diesel oil. A total of 33 hydrocarbon-utilizing m...
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