Soil and microbial characterisation and microbial-mediated iron release nearby landfills in Northwest Florida, USA
by Mitch Williams; Pawan Kumar Subramaniam; Kamal Tawfiq; Gang Chen
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM), Vol. 10, No. 1, 2012

Abstract: In this study, the soil of 16 landfills from 15 Northwest Florida counties was characterised through sieve analysis. On the basis of plate counts, it was found that there were around 3.0 × 10⁴ to 9.5 × 10⁵ Colony-Forming Units (CFU) per gram of soil for the soil of Northwest Florida. Through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were identified as dominating species

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