PMID- 19910189 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20101022 LR - 20131121 IS - 1873-2976 (Electronic) IS - 0960-8524 (Linking) VI - 101 IP - 6 DP - 2010 Mar TI - Nitrifying microorganisms in fixed-bed biofilm reactors fed with different nitrite and ammonia concentrations. PG - 1701-6 LID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.09.091 [doi] AB - Nitrifying bacteria and archaea were fed in fixed-bed biofilm reactors with different nitrite and ammonia concentrations in synthetic and real wastewater. During high nitrite concentrations (rho(NO(2)(-))=5-10mg/L), an increase in the abundance of Nitrobacter species was detected with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), while Nitrospira species disappeared to a large extent. During high ammonia concentrations (rho(NH(4)(+))=60-80 mg/L), a slight increase in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria was obtained, while the abundance of archaebacteria remained unchanged. Lab-scale reactors showed a similar nitrifying microbial population as reactors fed with real wastewater. However, increased abundances of Nitrospira species as observed in wastewater reactors and in the wastewater trickling filters could not be found in the laboratory reactors. CI - Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - ter Haseborg, Eike AU - ter Haseborg E AD - Engler-Bunte-Institute, Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Engler-Bunte-Ring 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. eike.terhaseborg@kit.edu FAU - Zamora, Talia Mateu AU - Zamora TM FAU - Frohlich, Jorn AU - Frohlich J FAU - Frimmel, Fritz H AU - Frimmel FH LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20091112 PL - England TA - Bioresour Technol JT - Bioresource technology JID - 9889523 RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 7664-41-7 (Ammonia) RN - N762921K75 (Nitrogen) SB - IM MH - Ammonia/*chemistry MH - Archaea/metabolism MH - Bacteria/metabolism MH - *Biofilms MH - *Bioreactors MH - Equipment Design MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence/methods MH - Nitrogen/*chemistry MH - Water Microbiology MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/isolation & purification MH - Water Purification/methods EDAT- 2009/11/17 06:00 MHDA- 2010/10/23 06:00 CRDT- 2009/11/14 06:00 PHST- 2009/03/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2009/09/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2009/09/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2009/11/14 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/11/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/10/23 06:00 [medline] AID - S0960-8524(09)01345-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.09.091 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Bioresour Technol. 2010 Mar;101(6):1701-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.09.091. Epub 2009 Nov 12.