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KB-1/ Bioaugmentation Publications

Discussion of Environment vs. Bacteria or Let’s Play,‘Name that Bacteria’ by E. K. Nyer, . Payne and S. Sutherson (2003), Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, v. 23,no. 1, pages 36–45. Responses by D. Major et al., Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, 23(2): 32–48.
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Duhamel, M. and E. A.  Edwards. 2006.  Microbial Composition of Chlorinated Ethene-Degrading Cultures Dominated by Dehalococcoides. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.
58: 538-49.
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Friis A.K., A.C. Heimann, R. Jakobsen, H.-J. Albrechtsen,
E. Cob, P.L. Bjerg. 2007. Temperature dependence of anaerobic TCE-dechlorination in a highly enriched Dehalococcoides-containing culture. Water Res. 41:355 – 364.
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Major, D., M. McMaster, E. Cox, E. Edwards, S. Dworatzek, E. Hendrickson, M. Starr, J. Payne and L. Buonamici.  2002. Field Demonstration of Successful Bioaugmentation to Achieve Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene to Ethene. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36: 5106-5116.
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Cox, E., M. McMaster, D. Major and S. Neville.  2002. Successful Field Demonstration of Bioaugmentation to Remediate Trichloroethene in Groundwater. Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds. Battelle Conference Monterey, California. May 20-23, 2002. 
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Finn P. S., A. Kane, J. Vidumsky, D.W. Major, N.Bauer. 2003. In situ bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in overburden and bedrock using bioaugmentation. Paper A-21, in: V.S. Magar and M.E. Kelley (Eds.), In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation—2003. Proceedings of the Seventh International In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium (Orlando, FL; June 2003).
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McDaniel, T.V., N. Ross, P. A. Martin , H. Steer, A.-M.  Abbey and S. Lesage. 2007. Bioremediation of Tetrachloroethylene-Contaminated Groundwater in a Model Aquifer:Effects on Green Frogs (Rana clamitans) and Xenopus laevis as Potential Wetland Receptors. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Waller, A. S., Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, F.E. Löffler and E.A. Edwards. 2005. Multiple Reductive-Dehalogenase-Homologous Genes Are Simultaneously Transcribed during Dechlorination by Dehalococcoides-Containing Cultures Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
71: 8257–8264.
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Krug T., Major D. and Dennis P. Helping Nature. The Military Engineer 99 (No. 645) 53-54
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Dehalococcoides /Molecular Genetic Testing Publications

Hendrickson, E.R., J. A. Payne, R. M. Young, M.G. Star, M. P. Perry, S. Fahnestock, D. E. Ellis and R.C. Ebersole. 2002. Molecular analysis of Dehalococcoides 16S ribosomal DNA from chloroethene-contaminated sites throughout North America and Europe.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:485-495.
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Dennis, P. 2005. Why the type of bacteria matter in bioremediation.
Pollution Engineering. January 2005.
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Lu, X., J. T. Wilson, D. H. Kampbell. 2006. Relationship between Dehalococcoides DNA in ground water and rates of reductive dechlorination at field scale. Water Res.  
40: 3131- 3140.
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Müller, J.A., B.M. Rosner, G. von Abendroth, G. Meshulam-Simon, P. L. McCarty, and A. M. Spormann. 2004. Molecular Identification of the Catabolic Vinyl Chloride Reductase from Dehalococcoides sp. Strain VS and Its Environmental Distribution.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2004 August; 70(8): 4880–4888.
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Biodegradation Publications

Cupples, A.M., A.M. Spormann, and P.L. McCarty. 2003. Growth of a Dehalococcoides-like microorganism on vinyl chloride and cis-Dichloroethene as electron acceptors as determined by competitive PCR. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 953–959.
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Duhamel, M., S.D. Wehr, L. Yu, H. Rizvi, D. Seepersad, S. Dworatzek, E.E. Cox, and E.A. Edwards. 2002. Comparison of anaerobic dechlorinating enrichment cultures maintained on tetrachloroethene, trichloroethene, cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride. Water Res. 36: 4193-4202.
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Dinglasan-Panlilio, M. J., S. Dworatzek, S. Mabury & E. Edwards. 2006. Microbial oxidation of 1,2-dichloroethane under anoxic conditions with nitrate as electron acceptor in mixed and pure cultures FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 56: 355–364.
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Grostern, A. and E. A. Edwards. 2006. Growth of Dehalobacter and Dehalococcoides spp. during Degradation of Chlorinated Ethanes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 428–436.
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Löffler, F. E. and E. A. Edwards. 2006. Harnessing microbial activities for environmental cleanup. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 17:274–284.
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Maymo-Gatell, X., T. Anguish, and S.H. Zinder. 1999. Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and 1,2-dichloroethane by “Dehalococcoides ethenogenes” 195. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 65: 3108–3113.
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Maymo-Gatell, X., I. Nijenhuis, and S.H. Zinder. 2001. Reductive dechlorination of cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride by “Dehalococcoides ethenogenes.” Environmental Science & Technology, 35: 516–521.
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He, J., K.M. Ritalahti, M.R. Aiello, and F.E. Loffler. 2003. Complete detoxification of vinyl chloride by an anaerobic enrichment culture and identification of the reductively dechlorinating population as a Dehalococcoides species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
69: 996–1003.
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Maymo-Gatell, X., Y.-T. Chien, J.M. Gossett, and S.H. Zinder. 1997. Isolation of a bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to ethene. Science, 276: 1568–1571.
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He, Jianzhang et al. 2003. Detoxification of vinyl chloride to ethene coupled to growth of an anaerobic bacterium. Nature, 424: 62-65.
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Jones E. J. P., M. A. Voytek, M.M. Lorah, J. D. Kirshtein. 2006. Characterization of a Microbial Consortium Capable of Rapid and Simultaneous Dechlorination of 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane and Chlorinated Ethane and Ethene Intermediates Bioremediation Journal, Volume 10(4)153 – 168.
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M. Duhamel , K. Mo , E.A. Edwards. 2004. Characterization of a highly enriched Dehalococcoides-containing culture that grows on vinyl chloride and trichloroethene. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70(9):5538-45.
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Zero Valent Iron

O’Hara, S., T. Krug, J. Quinn, C. Clausen, C. Geiger. 2006. Field and Laboratory Evaluation of the Treatment of DNAPL Source Zones Using Emulsified Zero-Valent Iron. Remediation. Spring 2006: 35-56.
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