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Modeling subsurface transport of microorganisms

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Environmental Hydrology

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The transport and fate of microorganisms in porous media was originally of interest because of concern for outbreaks of diseases caused by groundwater contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms (Craun, 1985). Transport of microorganisms is now also recognized to be important in fields as diverse as oil recovery (Jenneman et al., 1984) and biological control of plant root diseases (Parke et al., 1986; Tan et al., 1991). In-situ bioremediation of contaminated soil or aquifers using indigenous or exogenous bacteria has recently generated further interest in this topic, as well as in the simultaneous transport of microorganisms and biologically reactive solutes used by bacteria as substrates for growth (Baveye and Valocchi, 1989; Reynolds et al., 1989; Taylor and Jaffe, 1990c; Gannon et al., 1991).

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Tan, Y., Bond, W.J. (1995). Modeling subsurface transport of microorganisms. In: Singh, V.P. (eds) Environmental Hydrology. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1439-6_9

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