Biofilm and human spaceflight

Affiliations

¹ Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717, USA.
² NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, 35808, USA.
³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA.

Editorial

Darla M Goeres et al. Biofilm. 2023.

. 2023 Aug 18:6:100150.

doi: 10.1016/j.bioflm.2023.100150. eCollection 2023 Dec 15.

¹ Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717, USA.
² NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, 35808, USA.
³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA.

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