Evaluation of various cleaning methods to remove Bacillus spores from spacecraft hardware materials

Astrobiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-390

  Venkateswaran, Kasthuri ^a   Chung, Shirley ^a   Allton, Judith ^b   Kern, Roger ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaning; Disinfection; Space craft materials; Spores

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALUMINUM; DETERGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT; NITRIC ACID; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

ALUMINUM; BACILLUS; DETERGENTS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NITRIC ACID; SPACECRAFT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM;

EID: 16644364059     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2004.4.377     Document Type: Article

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