Evaluating the Spaceflight Infectious Disease Risk Potential of Pathogenic and Commensal microorganisms using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Human Surrog

Agriculture & Biology

1. space flight 100%
2. Caenorhabditis elegans 84%
3. infectious diseases 81%
4. microorganisms 52%
5. virulence 28%
6. immune system 25%
7. pathogenesis 16%
8. gene expression 16%
9. Burkholderia cepacia 11%
10. microgravity 10%
11. Lactobacillus acidophilus 10%
12. infection 9%
13. risk assessment 9%
14. uncertainty 8%
15. bioreactors 8%
16. Salmonella Typhimurium 8%
17. Staphylococcus aureus 7%
18. immunity 7%
19. flight 7%
20. Nematoda 6%
21. phenotype 5%
22. duration 5%
23. pathogens 5%
24. mutants 5%