Predicting how varying moisture conditions impact the microbiome of dust collected from the International Space Station.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The commercialization of space travel will soon lead to many more people living and working in unique built environments similar to the International Space Station, which is a specialized closed environment that contains its own indoor microbiome. Unintended microbial growth can occur in these environments as in buildings on Earth from elevated moisture, such as from a temporary ventilation system failure. This growth can drive negative health outcomes and degrade building materials. We need a predictive approach for modeling microbial growth in these critical indoor spaces.

Results

Here, we demonstrate that even short exposures to varying elevated relative humidity can facilitate rapid microbial growth and microbial community composition changes in dust from spac

SUBMITTER: Nastasi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11386075 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature