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Population estimates of Thiobacillus thioparus in composting biofilters by PCR analysis
Michael J Gibson1, Jack T Trevors, Lambert Otten
1Applied Science and Engineering Technology, Holland College, 140 Weymouth Street, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada C1A 4Z1. mjgibson@hollandc.pe.ca
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|October 6, 2005
Abstract:
A direct most-probable-number polymerase chain reaction method (MPN-PCR) was used to monitor populations of Thiobacillus thioparus in compost biofilters used to treat air contaminated with dymethyl disulphide and ammonia. The PCR method quantified this bacterium at numbers ranging from log 2 to log 8 cells per gram of biofilter media.

