Oh No, Antibiotic Resistance!

Antibiotic resistance is a global crisis many people are not aware of. This issue is caused by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. In order to help the researchers, I've collected some of my own data by doing a serial dilution from a soil sample collected in my backyard. After days of procedures I selected twelve species of bacteria that formed zones of inhibition when grown around other bacteria. The next step was to create new agar plates using the six ESKAPE pathogens. After finding new zones of inhibition, I then narrowed it down to one species for further testing. Throughout my research I will examine new information to help identify this organism in hopes to find it is an antimicrobial.