Start Date
28-4-2022 12:00 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
There is a problem on the horizon, growing, resisting, mutating. Common bacteria that cause infections have been growing in their resistance to antibiotics due to the overuse of antibacterial drugs. This is where our research comes in. Class 004 of JCCC has been conducting experiments on microbes found in ordinary soil all over Overland park and its surrounding areas. The microbes from this soil sample were isolated from the suburbs of Grandview. The goal of these tests is to discover if the bacteria present in this sample could be used to impede the growth of antibacterial resistant pathogens, especially the ESKAPE pathogens. We isolated a promising colony that showed a good zone of inhibition against three of the ESKAPE pathogens safe relatives. This colony has been named Luke Poush (1) and through gram staining, the bacteria has come out positive. A PCR test has been conducted to discover what species it may be, results have not yet been made, but the identity will be revealed soon.
Seeking to ESKAPE the Resistant Bacteria Crisis
There is a problem on the horizon, growing, resisting, mutating. Common bacteria that cause infections have been growing in their resistance to antibiotics due to the overuse of antibacterial drugs. This is where our research comes in. Class 004 of JCCC has been conducting experiments on microbes found in ordinary soil all over Overland park and its surrounding areas. The microbes from this soil sample were isolated from the suburbs of Grandview. The goal of these tests is to discover if the bacteria present in this sample could be used to impede the growth of antibacterial resistant pathogens, especially the ESKAPE pathogens. We isolated a promising colony that showed a good zone of inhibition against three of the ESKAPE pathogens safe relatives. This colony has been named Luke Poush (1) and through gram staining, the bacteria has come out positive. A PCR test has been conducted to discover what species it may be, results have not yet been made, but the identity will be revealed soon.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.