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Table 2 Comparison of the PBDEs degradation efficiency reported in previous reports

From: Biodegradation of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) by a newly isolated bacterium from an e-waste recycling area

PBDEs

Time

Initial concentration

Degradation bacteria

Degradation efficiency

References

BDE 209

30 days

65 μg/L

Stenotrophomonas sp. strain WZN-1

55.15%

This study

Diphenyl ether, 4-bromo-, 2,4-dibromo-,4,4′-dibromodiphenyl ether

8 days

1 g/L diphenyl ether

Sphingomonas sp. PH-07

100% (diphenyl ether), 23% (4-bromo), 14% (2,4-dibromophenyl ether), 8% (4,4′dibromodiphenyl ether)

Kim et al. (2007)

Tetra-, penta- and hexa-BDEs

3 days

17 ng/mL

Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, Burkholderia xenovorans LB400, Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans CB1190

RHA1 transformed greater than 90% of mono- and di-BDE congeners, LB400 transformed 10–45% of penta-BDE congeners

Robrock et al. (2009)

Octa-BDE

2 months

45 nM nona-BDE, 181 nM octa-BDEs, 294 nM hepta-BDE, and 19 nM hexa-BDE

Dehalococcoides species

–

Lee and He (2010)

BDE 47, 99, 100

14 days

1180 nM

Dehalococcoides and Desulfovibrio spp.

88–100%

Lee et al. (2011)

BDE 209

6 days

6 mg/L

Lysinibacillus fusiformis DB-1

< 20%

Deng et al. (2011)

BDE 209

90 days

10 μM of BDE 209

Pseudomonas spp.

< 12%

Qiu et al. (2012)

BDE 209

12 days

1 mg/L

Bacillus cereus JP12

88%

Lu et al. (2013)

Octa and penta-BDE technical mixtures

21 weeks

280 nM PBDEs in an octa-BDE mixture

Acetobacterium sp. strain AG Dehalococcoides sp. strain DG

96%

Ding et al. (2013)

BDE 47

2 weeks

20 μg/L

Pseudomonas stutzeri

97.94%

Zhang et al. (2013)

BDE 47

7 days

50 μg/L

Pseudomonas putida sp. strain TZ-1

49.96%

Xin et al. (2014)

BDE 209

7 days

1 mg/L

Enterococcus casseliflavus

52.2%

Tang et al. (2016)

BDE 209

12 days

0.5 mg/L

Staphylococcus haemolyticus LY1 and Bacillus pumilus LY2

29.8 and 39.2%

Wang et al. (2016)

BDE 209

BDE 209

144 h

5 days

50 mg/L

20 mg/L

Rhodococcus sp.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

65.1%

85.12%

Liu et al. ( 2015, 2016)

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