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ArticleMicroorganisms2019

Ample Arsenite Bio-Oxidation Activity in Bangladesh Drinking Water Wells: A Bonanza for Bioremediation?

Zahid Hassan, Munawar Sultana, Sirajul I Khan, Martin Braster, Wilfred F M Röling, Hans V Westerhoff

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Article in Microorganisms, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Zahid HassanDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5018-7577
Munawar SultanaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
Sirajul I KhanDepartment of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
Martin BrasterDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wilfred F M RölingDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Hans V WesterhoffDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. h.v.westerhoff@vu.nl.
University of Dhaka · BDVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NLJagannath University · BDUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Corbel: EU-H2020 NFRADEV-4-2014-2015 #654248Epipredict EU-H2020 MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) #642691, BBSRC China: BB/J020060/1Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek W01.65.324.00/project 4
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of people worldwide are at risk of arsenic poisoning from their drinking water. In Bangladesh the problem extends to rural drinking water wells, where non-biological solutions are not feasible. In serial enrichment cultures of water from various Bangladesh drinking water wells, we found transfer-persistent arsenite oxidation activity under four conditions (aerobic/anaerobic; heterotrophic/autotrophic). This suggests that biological decontamination may help ameliorate the problem. The enriched microbial communities were phylogenetically at least as diverse as the unenriched communities: they contained a bonanza of 16S rRNA gene sequences. These related to

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aioAarsenite oxidationbioenergeticsbioremediationsystems microbial ecologywater

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PMID31398879
PMCPMC6723331
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