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DDT metabolism in microbial systems

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The metabolic fate of DDT1 is of interest not only because of widespread concern for environmental pollution but also because it affords an opportunity to study the complex metabolic reactions carried out in different organisms and various other ecosystems. Although DDT has been used for more than three decades, much of the knowledge of its metabolism in different systems is incomplete, misleading, or fraught with inconsistencies. Only with the advent of gas-liquid (GLC) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and mass spectrometry (MS) coupled with more extensive use of radiolabeled compounds has real progress been made.

Published with the approval of the Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experimental Station as Scientific Series Paper No. 1979, Contribution of Western Regional Research Project W-45.

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