Start Date
28-4-2022 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance is quickly spreading throughout the world. This poses great danger to humanity since infections will not be easily curable. Nearly 35,000 people die each year from antibiotic resistance. It has been discovered that soil yields most of the antibiotics developed due to soil microbes containing antibiotic properties. The students at Johnson County Community College have partnered with the Tiny Earth Network to help discover new antimicrobial species in the soil. The researcher collected a soil sample from Gardner, KS. Various serial dilutions were performed. The candidate VBCK 1 was challenged against safe relatives of ESKAPE pathogens observing that the candidate was able to isolate itself from most of the pathogens. A Gram stain and spore stain were completed concluding VBCK 1 to be Gram negative and not an endospore former. The identity of the bacteria VBCK 1 will be revealed at the poster symposium.
Research of Potential Antimicrobial Properties on Soil
Antibiotic resistance is quickly spreading throughout the world. This poses great danger to humanity since infections will not be easily curable. Nearly 35,000 people die each year from antibiotic resistance. It has been discovered that soil yields most of the antibiotics developed due to soil microbes containing antibiotic properties. The students at Johnson County Community College have partnered with the Tiny Earth Network to help discover new antimicrobial species in the soil. The researcher collected a soil sample from Gardner, KS. Various serial dilutions were performed. The candidate VBCK 1 was challenged against safe relatives of ESKAPE pathogens observing that the candidate was able to isolate itself from most of the pathogens. A Gram stain and spore stain were completed concluding VBCK 1 to be Gram negative and not an endospore former. The identity of the bacteria VBCK 1 will be revealed at the poster symposium.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.