International Journal of Microbiology
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 319527, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/319527
Carbon Monoxide as an Electron Donor for the Biological Reduction of Sulphate
1Laboratory of Microbiology of Anthropogenic Environments, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312, prosp. 60 let Oktyabrya, 7, b.2, Moscow, Russia
2Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (LEQUIA), University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain
3Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, 6703 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Received 1 October 2009; Revised 10 March 2010; Accepted 31 March 2010
Academic Editor: Michael J. McInerney
Copyright © 2010 Sofiya N. Parshina et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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