Metal Ions and Bacteria

by Terrance J. Beveridge and Ronald J. Doyle

A comprehensive treatment of the interactions of metals with bacteria, a subject of interest in medicine, toxicology, extraction of metals, mineral cycling and microbiology, is provided in this book. It outlines the diversity of these interactions, their importance to bacteria and humans, and the global scale of the reaction products. Topics include the use of microbes to immobilize toxic heavy metals, natural biological metal chelators, metalloenzymes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471629189
• ISBN13: 9780471629184
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"