Antibiotics Found Near a Parking Lot Inhibits ESKAPE Pathogens?

Antibiotic resistance is an issue around the world that Global Health Professionals are fighting. Effective treatments are becoming harder and harder to find in the effort to fight bacterial infections. Over the course of the semester we studied soil samples from local areas to help crowdsource new solutions for the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. I collected a loam soil sample nearby a parking lot in an apartment complex in Overland Park, KS. Then, over several weeks I isolated a colony, which I named 010, and biochemically tested to determine its species and relatives. Colony 010 proved to inhibit safe relatives of ESKAPE pathogens: Staphylococcus epidermidis and Bacillus subtilis. Colony 010 may be able to help treat Staph infections caused by Staphylococcus bacteria, and Anthrax caused by Bacillus anthracis.