| S. No. |
Location of HCH Dumpsite |
Conc. of HCH |
Bacterial Strains isolated from the dumpsites |
Reference |
| 1 |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, |
530 mg/ kg (b-HCH) |
Acinetobacter lwoffii |
[20] |
| 140 mg/ kg (a-HCH) |
Burkholderia cepacia |
| 7.3 mg/ kg (d- HCH) |
Chromobacterium violaceum |
| 6.2 mg/ kg (g-HCH) |
Comamonas testosterone |
| |
Pseudomonas chlororaphis |
| |
P. stutzeri |
| |
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia |
| |
Kurthia sp. |
| |
Micrococcus halobius |
| |
Micrococcus sp. |
| 2 |
The Netherlands |
<1 mg/ kg |
|
[21,22] |
| 3 |
Muggenburger Strasse, Germany |
18200 mg/ kg |
Sphingomonas sp. DS2 |
[23,24] |
| Kirchsteinbek, Germany |
|
Sphingomonas sp. DS2-2 |
| |
3.8 mg/kg |
Sphingomonas sp. DS3-1 |
| 4 |
Spain |
>5000 mg/kg |
Sphingomonas sp. a1-2 |
[25,26] |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 4-2 |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 4-5 |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 16-10 |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 12-7 |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 16-1 |
| Sphingomonas sp. a 16-9 |
| 5 |
China |
0.005 mg/kg of soil |
Sphingobium sp. MI1205 |
[13,27] |
| 6 |
The United States |
~5000 mg/kg |
- |
[28] |
| 7 |
India |
450 mg/g of soil |
Sphingobium ummariense RL3 |
[29-35] |
| Flavobacterium lindanitolerans sp. |
| Sphingobium lactosutens DS20 |
| Novosphingobium lindaniclasticum LE124 |
| Parapedobacter indicus RK1 |
| Sphingobium chinhatense IP26 |
| 8 |
Czech Republic |
Data not available |
Sphingobium baderi LL03 |
[36] |
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