Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Found on ISS Mutating to Become Functionally Distinct

A video abstract of this International Space Station investigation is available on the publisher website (see link below).

In a new scientific paper funded by an Ames Space Biology grant, Principal Investigator Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory strains of the bacterial species Enterobacter bugandensis isolated from the International Space Station (ISS) were studied. Thirteen strains of E. bugandensis, a bacterium notorious for being multi-drug resistant, were isolated from the ISS.