Patent ID: 8163534

Claim:
A biologically pure estrogenic substance-degrading microorganism which, when 10 7 to 10 8 cells/L of the microorganism are caused to act on an estrogenic substance selected from the group consisting of 17β-estradiol, estrone, and estriol at a concentration of 100 mg/L, is capable of degrading 80% or more of the estrogenic substance in five hours, wherein the microorganism is selected from the group consisting of Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans TAA-I3 strain (FERM ABP-10519), Gordonia terrae TAI-I5 strain (FERM ABP-10521), Zoogloea sp. TMJ-I1 strain (FERM ABP-10523), Cryptococcus sp. TMN-Y2 strain (FERM ABP-10525) and Trichosporon loubieri FF-Y2 strain (FERM ABP-10526).