Editing Infection (section)

==Outer space==
{{main|Effect of spaceflight on the human body|Medical treatment during spaceflight|Space medicine}}
A 2006 [[Space Shuttle]] experiment found that ''[[Salmonella typhimurium]]'', a bacterium that can cause [[food poisoning]], became more [[virulent]] when cultivated in [[Outer space|space]].<ref name="ASU-20070923">{{cite web |last=Caspermeyer |first=Joe |title=Space flight shown to alter ability of bacteria to cause disease |url=https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/space-flight-shown-alter-ability-bacteria-cause-disease |date=23 September 2007 |website=[[Arizona State University]] |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914172718/https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/space-flight-shown-alter-ability-bacteria-cause-disease |url-status=dead }}</ref> On April 29, 2013, scientists in [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], funded by [[NASA]], reported that, during [[spaceflight]] on the [[International Space Station]], [[microbes]] seem to adapt to the [[space environment]] in ways "not observed on Earth" and in ways that "can lead to increases in growth and virulence".<ref name="PLos-20130429">{{cite journal  |vauthors=Kim W, etal |title=Spaceflight Promotes Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa |date=April 29, 2013 |journal=[[PLOS ONE]] |volume=8 |issue=4 |page=e6237 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0062437 |pmid=23658630 |pmc=3639165 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...862437K |doi-access=free }}</ref> More recently, in 2017, [[bacteria]] were found to be more resistant to [[antibiotic]]s and to thrive in the near-weightlessness of space.<ref name="GZM-20170913">{{cite web |last=Dvorsky |first=George |title=Alarming Study Indicates Why Certain Bacteria Are More Resistant to Drugs in Space |url=https://gizmodo.com/alarming-study-indicates-why-certain-bacteria-are-more-1805666249 |date=13 September 2017 |website=[[Gizmodo]] |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914011750/http://gizmodo.com/alarming-study-indicates-why-certain-bacteria-are-more-1805666249 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Microorganism]]s have been observed to survive the [[vacuum]] of outer space.<ref name=Dose>{{cite journal | title=ERA-experiment "space biochemistry" | journal=Advances in Space Research | volume=16 | issue=8 | year=1995 | pages=119–29 | doi=10.1016/0273-1177(95)00280-R | pmid=11542696 | last1=Dose | first1=K. | last2=Bieger-Dose | first2=A. | last3=Dillmann | first3=R. | last4=Gill | first4=M. | last5=Kerz | first5=O. | last6=Klein | first6=A. | last7=Meinert | first7=H. | last8=Nawroth | first8=T. | last9=Risi | first9=S. | last10=Stridde | first10=C. | bibcode=1995AdSpR..16h.119D | url=http://publications.ub.uni-mainz.de/opus/volltexte/2008/11364/pdf/11364.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://publications.ub.uni-mainz.de/opus/volltexte/2008/11364/pdf/11364.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live }}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name='Horneck'>{{cite journal | title=Biological responses to space: results of the experiment "Exobiological Unit" of ERA on EURECA I | journal=Adv. Space Res. | year=1995 | author1=Horneck G. |author2=Eschweiler, U. |author3=Reitz, G. |author4=Wehner, J. |author5=Willimek, R. |author6=Strauch, K. | volume=16 | issue=8 | pages=105–18| pmid=11542695 | bibcode=1995AdSpR..16h.105H |doi=10.1016/0273-1177(95)00279-N}}</ref>