Clostridium tunisiense sp. nov., a new proteolytic, sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from an olive mill wastewater contaminated by phosphogypse

Hydrogen sulfide production from elemental sulfur by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans in an anaerobic bioreactor

“…By large, most of these studies have dealt with thermophilic bacteria. Only few studies concentrate on mesophilic conditions (Belyakova et al, 2006;Caccavo et al, 1994;Mogensen et al, 2005;Nakagawa et al, 2005;Thabet et al, 2004). Even less literature can be found on reactors for the biological elemental sulfur reduction and little is known about kinetic limitations; reactor parameters or coefficients; the ability of sulfate-reducing bacteria to form biofilms on sulfur surface in turbulent three-phase system; and mass and energy transport phenomena.…”

Fermentative and sulphate-reducing bacteria associated with treatment of an industrial dye effluent in an up-flow anaerobic fixed bed bioreactor

“…Three media were prepared by subsequent addition to basal medium of the following electron sources: lactate (40 mM), acetate (20 mM), and H 2 /CO 2 (80/20, v/v), 2 bars or methanol (40 mM), acetate (20 mM), and H 2 /CO 2 (80/20, v/v), 2 bars as carbon and energy sources to enrich and isolate SRB and methanogens, respectively, but also fermentative bacteria possibly growing on yeast extract as energy source [27,30].…”

“…The 16S rRNA gene was amplified by PCR using universal primers Fd1 and R6 [30] ( Table 2). The PCR mixture contained (20 l final volume): 2 l of 10× buffer (Sigma), 2 l of 25 mM MgCl 2 (Sigma), 0.2 l of 10 mM dNTP mixture, 0.2 l of a 50 pmol/l solution of each primer, 0.2 l of Taq polymerase (5 U/l; Sigma), qsp.…”

Genome Sequence of Clostridium tunisiense TJ, Isolated from Drain Sediment from a Pesticide Factory

“…Clostridium contains about 100 species that include ubiquitous common bacteria as well as important pathogens (5,14). Clostridium tunisiense is a proteolytic asaccharolytic sulfur-reducing bacterium which was first isolated from anaerobic mud of olive mill wastewaters with a high level of organic load pollution in Tunis (13). Many anaerobic bacteria were found and researched as digesters for waste treatment because of their saccharolytic ability (2,3,(8)(9)(10).…”

“…lostridium tunisiense is a species of the Gram-positive, sporogenic, obligate anaerobes of genus Clostridium belonging to the Firmicutes (1,13). Clostridium contains about 100 species that include ubiquitous common bacteria as well as important pathogens (5,14).…”