Microbiological method for eliminating a nitroaromatic compound
AssigneesCommissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
InventorsJamal Ouazzani, Laurence Le Campion
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Abstract
The invention relates to an isolated Penicillium strain capable of eliminating a nitroaromatic compound by mineralization and a microbiological method for eliminating a nitroaromatic compound present in a solution or in a soil.
Claims13
Microbiological method for eliminating at least one nitroaromatic compound present in a solution or in a soil, characterized in that it comprises a step consisting of placing said solution or said soil in contact with a biomass of a Penicillium strain under suitable conditions for mineralization of said nitroaromatic compound by the Penicillium strain, in the presence of a source of carbon for the Penicillium strain wherein the Penicillin strain is registered as 1-2081 at the CNCM kept by Institute Pasteur in France.
An isolated Penicillium sp. type strain, wherein said Penicillium sp. type strain is registered under number 1-2081 at the CNCM and is kept at Institut Pasteur in France.
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