Method for determining physiological state of microbial community and wastewater treatment method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8658037
APP PUB NO 20110100903A1
SERIAL NO

13002498

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The present invention provides a method for determining the physiological state of a microbial community, which rapidly and precisely determines the physiological state of a microbial community present in a treatment tank of a wastewater biological treatment facility; and a wastewater treatment method utilizing the same. In the method for determining the physiological state of a microbial community of the present invention, the method includes the steps of staining the microbial community collected from a treatment tank of a wastewater biological treatment facility with a first fluorescent dye which binds to a nucleotide chain of a microbe in the microbial community, and a second fluorescent dye which is degraded by an enzyme in cells of the microbe to emit fluorescent light having a wavelength different from that of the first fluorescent dye; measuring a first fluorescent intensity (F1) derived from the first fluorescent dye and a second fluorescent intensity (F2) derived from the second fluorescent dye, regarding the stained microbial community; and determining the satisfactory degree of the physiological state of the microbial community.

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SEIKO PMC CORPORATION3-6 NIHONBASHI HONCHO 3-CHOME CHUO-KU TOKYO 1030023

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Igarashi, Ryoji Ichihara, JP 6 44
Yamamoto, Takuji Ichihara, JP 49 796

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