“…The buried chromated pure PVA membrane, the dominant species were Bacillus spp [25,45,46,47,48,49], Pseudomonas spp [27,31,50,47,48], Aspergillus spp [51] and Penicillium spp [27,47]. In addition, for the buried GA, the major species were Bacillus spp [6,12,45], Penicillium spp, Aspergillus spp, Rhizorpous spp, [6,33,34]. This results agree with Coleman and Paran [52] who concluded that Gram-negative chromium reducing-bacteria tend to be more sensitive to chromium ion, while Gram positive bacteria are significantly tolerant to chromate ion toxicity even at relatively high concentration of the ion [25,52].…”