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MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS - AN ESSENTIAL PRECONDITION OF NATURAL ATTENUATION IN GROUNDWATER AQUIFER

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Since groundwater represents a capital resource of drinking water in many countries, there is a growing public concern with contamination of groundwater aquifers by different health relevant chemicals. Based on an expected ability of autochthonous microbial populations and other natural factors over time to bring about reduction or even elimination of health hazard for humans and animals, natural attenuation might stand for remedy of aquifers and other contaminated sites. To be effective in transformation or degradation of chemicals, microorganisms indigenous to groundwater should be capable of resisting to chemical pollutants, above all. In our laboratory experiments, microorganisms indigenous to an unpolluted deep groundwater aquifer were enriched, and in portions, the microbial biomass obtained was exposed to different organic chemicals in samples of groundwater. The effect of the chemicals on the size of biomass (ATP contents), and metabolic activities (dehydrogenase, and respiratory activity) was measured. The results indicate toxic effects to be predominantly caused by very high concentrations of the chemicals, sometimes even near to the full water saturation capacity.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (ICTP), Technicka 5, 16628, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    ZDENEK FILIP & KATERINA DEMNEROVA

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  1. National Institute of Environmental Health of “Jozsef Fodor” National Center for Public Health, Budapest, Hungary

    Gyula Dura

  2. National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Veska Kambourova

  3. National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria

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FILIP, Z., DEMNEROVA, K. (2006). MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS - AN ESSENTIAL PRECONDITION OF NATURAL ATTENUATION IN GROUNDWATER AQUIFER. In: Dura, G., Kambourova, V., Simeonova, F. (eds) Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4800-9_10

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