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Influence of sodium chloride on inhibition of Desulfovibrio by a surfactant

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The abnormally high resistance of certain marine strains of the sulphate-reducing bacteria to the bacteriostatic effects of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) has been studied. A strain of the NaCl-requiring species Desulfovibrio salexigens and a halotolerant strain of D. desulfuricans both showed a marked increase in resistance to CTAB (about one-hundredfold for the former organism) with increasing salinity of the growth medium: this was attributed to enhanced micelle formation by CTAB in presence of NaCl.

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  1. J. A. Costello

    Present address: Corrosion Group, National Chemical Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 288, C.P., South Africa

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England

    J. A. Costello, R. A. King & J. D. A. Miller

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Costello, J.A., King, R.A. & Miller, J.D.A. Influence of sodium chloride on inhibition of Desulfovibrio by a surfactant. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 71, 196–198 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00417742

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