The Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office at NASA Johnson Space Center maintains cleanrooms to archive extraterrestrial materials returned from space exploration missions. Compared to typical built environments, oligotrophic conditions make these facilities inhospitable to microbes. Despite these controls, bacteria and fungi are regularly cultured from these cleanrooms. In particular, Bacillus sp. are frequently isolated during routine microbial monitoring. Endospores associated with this genus can survive extreme environments, such as cleanrooms. This microbial contamination may affect the integrity of astromaterials.
Resolution of Maldi-Tof Compared to Whole Genome Sequencing for Identification of Bacillus Species Isolated From Cleanrooms at Nasa Johnson Space Center
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