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Confirmation of the presence of viable but non-cultureable bacteria in the stratosphere

Milton Wainwright, N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. V. Narlikar, P. Rajaratnam, Joy Perkins

International Journal of Astrobiology · 2004 · 43 citations · 3 references

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The presence of viable, but non-cultureable, bacteria on membranes through which stratospheric air samples were passed has been confirmed using viable fluorescent staining.

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Microorganisms cultured from stratospheric air samples obtained at 41 km

Milton Wainwright, N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. V. Narlikar et al. · FEMS Microbiology Letters · 2003 · 210 citations

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<title>Detection of living cells in stratospheric samples</title>

M.J. Harris, Nalin C. Wickramasinghe, David Lloyd et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2002 · 62 citations

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Microorganisms cultured from stratospheric air samples obtained at 41 km

M Wainwright · FEMS Microbiology Letters · 2003 · 26 citations · Full text

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