1. ISS National Laboratory Pathfinder Missions Therapeutics for Infectious Disease Jeanne L. Becker, Ph.D.
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5. An experiment conducted on the space shuttle demonstrated that Salmonella grown in space becomes more virulent, as compared to the same bacteria grown here on earth
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Hinweis der Redaktion
The end point, or the effect is that microbes change in microgravity. The consequences surrounding this effect this may be associated with bacterial growth, its susceptibility to antibiotics, its pathogenicity or ability to cause disease, and its virulence or potency.
For this work, our approach was to go to the published literature, and take advantage of the scientific evidence to point us towards the gene candidates for Salmonella enteritidis known to be associated with virulence, hence be a potential target for future vaccine development
We knew C elegans would work well, since it has been flown before, and known to survive well in the environment of spaceflight, and the BioServe group has experience in flying the organism
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper STS-126 November 20, 2008