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Wastewater from syntheses of s-triazines was analyzed.This real waste differed from the model wastes for which a triazine-degrading pseudomonad had been isolated.The pseudomonad, while able to grow, did not degrade a significant portion of the s-triazines.
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Cook, A.M., Hogrefe, W., Grossenbacher, H. et al. Biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds: Problems of enzyme specificity and wide substrate spectrum in real wastes containings-triazines. Biotechnol Lett 5, 843–848 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01386659
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