Antimony resistant bacteria isolated from Buducnost adit (Pezinok-Kolarsky vrch deposit) in western Slovakia.

ABSTRACT: Potentially toxic elements (PTE), such as antimony (Sb), are dangerous putative contaminants for ground and surface waters around abandoned mines and ore deposits in Slovakia. Nearby mines antimony is commonly coprecipitated in ochre sediments precipitated from Fe-rich drainage waters and, therefore, these sites function as natural scavengers of this metalloid. Bacteria are well known to contribute to the process of redox state maintenance, biosorption and bioaccumulation of antimony and, consequently, to antimony precipitation or release from iron oxides complexes. Here we isolated 48 bacterial strains from circumneutral hydrous ferric oxides (HFO) rich iron ochres accumulated in the waters running from tailing pounds nearby Budúcnosť mine, Pezinok, Slovakia and polluted with high, but fl

SUBMITTER: Majerova H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11599972 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature