Coliform Bacteria for Bioremediation of Waste Hydrocarbons.

ABSTRACT: Raw, domestic sewage of Kuwait City contained about 10⁶ ml^-1 colony forming units of Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. oharae (56.6%), Klebsiella spp. (36%), and Escherichia coli (7.4%), as characterized by their 16S rRNA-gene sequences. The isolated coliforms grew successfully on a mineral medium with crude oil vapor as a sole source of carbon and energy. Those strains also grew, albeit to different degrees, on individual n-alkanes with carbon chains between C₉ and C₃₆ and on the individual aromatic hydrocarbons, toluene, naphthalene, phenanthrene, and biphenyl as sole sources of carbon and energy. These results imply that coliforms, like other hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms, oxidize hydrocarbons to the corres

SUBMITTER: Khanafer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5610891 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature