Candidate For A New Antibiotic

Antibiotic resistance has become a major problem in the medical field, and this problem continues to expand every day. To find new promising antibiotic candidates, I took a soil sample from Liberty, Missouri, counted the bacteria in the sample, and found potential candidates. I have screened multiple soil microbes for their antibiotic activity and have identified a potential antibiotic producing candidate using genetic and metabolic approaches. I am hopeful that this candidate will be shown to produce an antibiotic that can be used to treat infections that are resistant to known antibiotics.