NASA is concerned over the strains of the bacterium Enterobacter, identified on the toilets of the International Space Station's (ISS), which can raise potential health implications for future missions, say Indian-origin scientists at the US space agency.

Five strains of 'Enterobacter' bacterium isolated from the space toilet and the exercise platform on the ISS in March 2015 were investigated in a study led by a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US.