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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1977 May; 33(5): 1092-1096

Toxic effect of water-soluble fractions of crude, refined, and weathered oils on the growth of a marine bacterium.

ABSTRACT

The water-soluble fractions of three crude and two refined oils reduced the growth rate and maximum cell density of the marine bacterium Serratia marinorubra grown in batch culture. The weathering of a crude and a refined oil was simulated in the laboratory. The water-soluble fractions remaining from this process were more toxic to S. marinorubra than were the parent unweathered oils. Increases in the magnitude of toxic effect of 3 to 30 times were observed as a function of decreasing the concentration of yeast extract in the cultures from 0.1 to 0.05 and 0.01%. The toxicity did not correlate with the concentration of total water-soluble fraction or of aromatic hydrocarbons in the water-soluble fraction. Affected cultures did not exhibit a residual toxicity after being back-inoculated into control media.