We were happy to see that, although our three strains had been previously identified bacteria, two of them were not previously associated with phthalate degradation, so this was actually a novel discovery.
嬉しいことに ３つの菌株は すでに発見されていたものの うち２つは これまでフタル酸エステル類分解とは 関係づけられていなかったので 新しい発見をしたことになりました