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.
Estábamos contentas de ver, que aunque nuestras tres variedades habían sido previamente identificadas, dos de ellas no fueron previamente asociadas con la degradación de ftalato, éste era en realidad un descubrimiento novedoso.