Treatment Plant Operator’s Bug of the Month is an ongoing series that spotlights the organisms present in wastewater microbiology. Each month a new organism is featured, giving readers a profile of the species and how it functions in a wastewater treatment setting.
In this peek under the microscope, take an up-close look at Nitrobacter.
Nitrobacter is a nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) that oxidizes nitrite to nitrate and one of two genus of nitrifying bacteria that can be readily identified at phase contrast microscopy 1000x magnification. The other genus of bacteria visible with microscopy that have a predominant role in nitrification are Nitrosomonas, which
