ESKAPE Pathogen
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
27-4-2018 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance has been a growing problem in healthcare over the last several years. Because of overuse of antibiotics, pathogens are finding ways to combat drugs and thus be resistant to their effects. There isn’t a lot of funding going towards the discovery of new antibiotics because of the fact that they are used only short-term and don’t produce a lot of revenue. By participating in lab and learning about microbiology through the study of soil samples that we bring in, us students are taking part of what’s called the Small World Initiative. We hope to contribute to the discovery of new antibiotics.
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ESKAPE Pathogen
CoLab, OCB 100
Antibiotic resistance has been a growing problem in healthcare over the last several years. Because of overuse of antibiotics, pathogens are finding ways to combat drugs and thus be resistant to their effects. There isn’t a lot of funding going towards the discovery of new antibiotics because of the fact that they are used only short-term and don’t produce a lot of revenue. By participating in lab and learning about microbiology through the study of soil samples that we bring in, us students are taking part of what’s called the Small World Initiative. We hope to contribute to the discovery of new antibiotics.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Tarik El Mellouki, Biology.