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Bioremediation of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Pollution at HCH Dump Sites

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Globally, the period from early the 1950s to late 1980s has shown an increased use of primarily three pesticides namely DDT.

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    Shailly Anand, Jaya Malhotra, Neha Niharika, Devi Lal, Swati Jindal, Jaspreet Kaur, Aeshna Nigam, Nidhi Garg, Pushp Lata, Jasvinder Kaur, Naseer Sangwan, Amit Kumar Singh, Ankita Dua, Anjali Saxena, Vatsala Dwivedi, Udita Mukherjee & Rup Lal

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Anand, S. et al. (2013). Bioremediation of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Pollution at HCH Dump Sites. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_23

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