Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1985-01-01

Bacterial reduction of fensulfothion and its hydrolysis product 4-methylsulfinyl phenol.

I C Mac Rae, A J Cameron

Index: Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 49(1) , 236-7, (1985)

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Abstract

Oxygen-limited cultures of Klebsiella pneumoniae reduced 4-methylsulfinyl phenol to 4-methylthiophenol. A study of the effect of 4-methylthiophenol on the growth of K. pneumoniae revealed that the specific growth rate was retarded by 40% in the presence of 200 micrograms of the phenol per ml. A soil bacterium, Hafnia sp., was isolated that could reduce the organophosphorus insecticide fensulfothion to fensulfothion sulfide.