The Search of Possible Antibiotics from the Soils of Overland Park, Kansas

With the daily rise of infection all over the world, comes the growing need for continues search for antibiotics. Soil was collected from 68st in overland park and diluted to identify possible antibiotic producing candidates. Candidate was selected and tested against ESKAPE relatives such as: Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baylyi, Pseudomonas putida and Enterobacter aergenes, which showed it to be a good inhibitor to most of the ESKAPE relatives. More details on this will be discussed further in the poster. Additional procedures was done such as the Gram staining and Spore staining my candidate in order to determine if the candidate was a Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria, and also to find out if my candidate has spores present, and after staining my candidate, it was observed to be a gram-positive bacteria and had good spore in them as well. Details of the whole process will be discussed more on the rest of my poster.