2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Paper No. 86-7
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

EXTRATERRESTRIAL AGENTS DEPENDENCE OF TERRESTRIAL MICROBIAL SURVIVAL

BELISHEVA, Natalia, Department of Plant Physiology, Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman Str.14, 184200 Apatity, Russian Federation, Zinovieva 10/19,184200 Apatity, Russian Federation, Apatity 184200 Russia, belisheva@com.mels.ru

The connection between of influenza outbreaks and solar cyclic activity was found by A.L.Tchijevsky. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe claims that influenza outbreaks are often caused by newly arriving viruses from space and the worst flu epidemics coincide with peaks in the eleven-year cycle of sunspot activity. One can propose that the simultaneous emergence of pathogenic microbial organisms in geographical isolated regions has connection with global agents of extraterrestrial environment associated with solar cyclic activity. In our research we assess extraterrestrial agents dependence of pathogenic and nonpathogenic microbial survival in human organism of bronchial asthma patients. The affect of extraterrestrial agents on the microbial growth in human organism was analyzed by the Technology of System Reconstruction. It was found that the growth of the pathogenic and nonpathogenic microbial systems are determined by different groups of extraterrestrial agents. Positive signs of the correlation were found between growth of pathogenic microbial systems and variations of cosmic rays as well as variability of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), the solar wind hydrodynamic pressure, the solar wind velocity and variability. Moreover the variations of cosmic rays and the solar wind plasma density have a main significance for modulation of growth of pathogenic microbial systems, including mycotic lesion. Our results demonstrate that the pathogenic microbial systems are more sensitive to exposure of extraterrestrial agents, especially of cosmic rays and solar wind, than nonpathogenic microbes. It could be suggested that positive connection of growth of pathogenic microbial organisms with cosmic rays and solar wind impact indicates on the possibility of bacterial attack from space.

2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
General Information for this Meeting
Session No. 86--Booth# 7
Geomicrobiology: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments for Microbial Survival (Posters)
Salt Palace Convention Center: Hall C
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 17 October 2005

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 206

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