Antibiotic Candidates from Soil

This project is trying to find bacterial candidates in the soil to help to slow the antibiotic resistance problem rising in the world right now. During this project we do several tests to see if these bacteria we collect from the soil are resistant to the ESKAPE pathogens safe relatives. Seeing if these bacteria are resistant to any types of the ESKAPE pathogens, safe relatives will show if they can create antibiotics to fight off the actual ESKAPE pathogens. We also do several other tests to find out what kind of bacteria we are dealing with. For my project so far I have only found that my bacteria is gram positive and needed to be spore stained.