Finding Antibiotic Microbes

Antibiotic resistant pathogens are increasing the risk to global human health in spite of the new discoveries of antibiotics. Microorganisms found in soil can help in producing such antibiotics. By screening a soil sample from a local park to isolate microbes that can potentially be used in making antibiotics against resistant pathogens. From these screenings, there was one candidate that inhibited Staphylococcus epidermidis which is a safe relative of one of the ESKAPE pathogens.