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International Scholarly Research Notices
Volume 2014, Article ID 762070, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/762070
Research Article

Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent by a Microbial Consortium Developed from Compost Soils

Charles O. Nwuche,1,2 Hideki Aoyagi,2 and James C. Ogbonna1

1Department of Microbiology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 410001, Nigeria
2Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan

Received 21 August 2014; Accepted 7 October 2014; Published 29 October 2014

Academic Editor: David Rodríguez-Lázaro

Copyright © 2014 Charles O. Nwuche 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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