Quantification of Encapsulated Bioburden in Spacecraft Polymer Materials by Cultivation-Dependent and Molecular Methods

• Anja Bauermeister ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Bauermeister, Alexander Mahnert

  Affiliation Compliance Advice and Services in Microbiology GmbH, Cologne, Germany

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• Alexander Mahnert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Bauermeister, Alexander Mahnert

  Current address: Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, TU Graz, Graz, Austria

  Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Archaea Centre, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Anna Auerbach,

  Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Archaea Centre, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Alexander Böker,

  Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Makromolekulare Materialien und Oberflächen (Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces), DWI at the RWTH Aachen e.V., RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Niwin Flier,

  Affiliation Compliance Advice and Services in Microbiology GmbH, Cologne, Germany

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• Christina Weber,

  Affiliations Compliance Advice and Services in Microbiology GmbH, Cologne, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Makromolekulare Materialien und Oberflächen (Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces), DWI at the RWTH Aachen e.V., RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Alexander J. Probst,

  Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Archaea Centre, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Christine Moissl-Eichinger ,

  * E-mail: Christine.Moissl-Eichinger@ur.de

  Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Archaea Centre, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Klaus Haberer

  Affiliation Compliance Advice and Services in Microbiology GmbH, Cologne, Germany

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