Producing Antibiotics

Soil has the largest amount of microorganisms that produce antibiotics. Discovering new antibiotics is huge in the scientific world, because antibiotics help give relief to symptoms, speed recovery time and stop the infection from spreading. Since the 1880s, scientists have been doing serial dilutions to test certain soil samples of possible antibiotic candidates. This has been successfully done by securing a soil sample, serial dilution, transferring possible candidates to a master plate, testing each candidate to a safe relative and creating a streak plate of best antibiotic candidate. After testing each candidate, it will become clearer how many or if there are any antibiotics present in the soil sample.