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- Title
The prospects of using bacteria of the genus Rhodococcus and microbial surfactants for the degradation of oil pollutants.
- Authors
Karpenko, E.; Vil’danova-Martsishin, R.; Scheglova, N.; Pirog, T.; Voloshina, I.
- Abstract
The possibility of accelerating oil degradation by an enrichment culture of oil-oxidizing microorganisms in the presence of bacteria of the genus Rhodococcus and microbial surfactants was studied. It was shown that the degree of consumption of crude oil (2vol %) after 192 h of enrichment culture growth reached 84%. Inoculation of the active hydrocarbon-oxidizing strain Rhodococcus erythropolis EK-1 and exogenous surfactants produced by Pseudomonas sp. PS-27 increased this degree to 90 and 93–94%, respectively. On the grounds of these results, efficient methods of purification of the environment from oil pollutants can be developed.
- Subjects
MICROBIAL surfactants; MICROORGANISMS; PSEUDOMONAS; POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA
- Publication
Applied Biochemistry & Microbiology, 2006, Vol 42, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
0003-6838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0003683806020074