Affiliation:
1. Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Department of Soil Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel
Abstract
The effect of various clay minerals and humic acid on the survival of
Klebsiella aerogenes
exposed to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation was investigated. A protective effect was observed and found to depend on the specific light absorption and light scattering properties of the clay minerals and the humic acid used. The higher the specific absorption, the better was the survival of
K. aerogenes
after UV irradiation. Bacterial survival was lower in clays saturated with divalent cations (Ca, Zn) than in those homoionic to monovalent cations (K).
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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