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Klebsiella alba sp. nov., a novel pesticide-tolerant bacterium from a heavily polluted environment.
The Journal of general and applied microbiology - 1 Jun 2010
Xu Junfeng, Li Wenjun, Chen Xiaoyun, Zhou Yu
Abstract excerpt
A novel Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and pesticide (chlorpyrifos and atrazine) tolerant strain, designated CW-D 3(T), was isolated from a heavily polluted soil sample in Jiangsu Province, China. The strain could tolerate about 800 microg.ml(-1) atrazine or chlorpyrifos when added in TYB medium. A polyphasic taxonomy including phylogenetic and phenotypic analysis was performed on the new isolate....
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