The Hunt for Antiobiotics

Over the course of decades, the hunting of Antibiotics has been exceedingly unsuccessful. In a world where we are advancing in technology every single day, the only thing that seems to be hidden from the world is the production of new antibiotics. The unfolding of antibiotic- resistance microorganisms is a serious health matter and for that reason many renowned have used soil microorganisms in hope of finding the next Antibiotic that can help save world. My project describes the discovery and features of an antibiotic producing bacteria found in the soil on 68th St Overland Park, KS. My soil has gone through serial dilution and after two successful master plates, a promising unknown candidate was selected. My unknown bacteria which I called 8 (my lucky number) was tested against the safe ESKAPE relatives, it showed great inhibition against Enterococcus faecalis and Pseudomonas putida. It’s a Gram-positive spore forming rod and it also inhibits the growth of a test strain; Bacillus subtilis. I chose this unknown bacterium because of its ability to inhibit the growth of other microbes. Currently, my unknown bacterium is going through PCR sequencing.