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SUBMITTER: Ibrahim MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4537879 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saudi journal of biological sciences 20150505 5
Soil contamination with petroleum hydrocarbon products such as diesel and engine oil is becoming one of the major environmental problems. This study describes hydrocarbons degrading bacteria (PHAD) isolated from long-standing petrol polluted soil from the eastern region, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The isolated strains were firstly categorized by accessible shape detection, physiological and biochemistry tests. Thereafter, a technique established on the sequence analysis of a 16S rDNA gene was used. I ...[more]