Table 2.

Comparison of the PBDEs degradation efficiency reported in previous reports

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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