Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Bezza FA

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• Research Article
  Petroleum Hydrocarbon Spills in the Environment and Abundance of Microbial Community Capable of Biosurfactant Production
  Author(s): Chirwa EMN* and Bezza FA Chirwa EMN* and Bezza FA
  
  Petroleum industries generate wastes, some of which may be considered hazardous because of the presence of toxic organics and heavy metals. The wastes can bioaccumulate in food chains where they disrupt biochemical or physiological activities of many organisms, thus causing carcinogenesis of some organs, mutagenesis in the genetic material, impairment in reproductive capacity. Bioremediation constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by natural existing populations of microorganisms. In this work, microbial community composition and metabolic potential have been explored in petroleum-hydrocarbon contaminated wood treatment plant soil. A collection of strains, adapted to grow on minimal medium supplemented with coal tar creosote, was obtained and the diversity of the bacterial collection was analysed by 16S rRNA gene-based 454 pyrosequ.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7463.1000237

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