Spaceflight Promotes Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Wooseong ^a,b   Tengra, Farah K ^a,b   Young, Zachary ^a   Shong, Jasmine ^a,b   Marchand, Nicholas ^a,b   Chan, Hon Kit ^a   Pangule, Ravindra C ^a,b,d   Parra, Macarena ^c   Dordick, Jonathan S ^a,b   Plawsky, Joel L ^a   Collins, Cynthia H ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLAGELLUM; GRAVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPACE FLIGHT;

BIOFILMS; CARBON; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHOSPHATES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84876926784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062437     Document Type: Article

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