Bacterial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”

Tomoaki Ichijo; Nobuyasu Yamaguchi; Masao Nasu

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Bacterial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”

Tomoaki Ichijo, Nobuyasu Yamaguchi, and Masao Nasu

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University
1-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Received:

September 1, 2015

Accepted:

October 8, 2015

Published:

December 1, 2015

Keywords:

bacterial monitoring, culture independent approach, international space station

Abstract

Since 2009, we have been continuously performing bacterial monitoring in Kibo, the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station (ISS), in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The objective of this research is to monitor microbes and analyze their dynamics in Kibo from environmental microbiological viewpoints. In this review, we summarize our research related to bacterial monitoring in Kibo.

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T. Ichijo, N. Yamaguchi, and M. Nasu, “Bacterial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.10 No.6, pp. 1035-1039, 2015.

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[6] [6] T. Ichijo, H. Hieda, R. Ishihara, N. Yamaguchi, and M. Nasu, “Bacterial monitoring with adhesive sheet in the International Space Station – ‘Kibo’, the Japanese Experiment Module,” Microbes Environ., Vol.28, pp. 264–268, 2013.

[7] [7] T. Ichijo, N. Yamaguchi, and M. Nasu, “Four-year bacterial monitoring in the International Space Station – Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” with culture-independent approach” (in revision).

[8] [8] “Rapid Microbial Methods,” Japanese Pharmacopoeial Forum, Vol.24, pp. 405–406, June 2015.