Antibiotics: The Fight Against Resistance
Start Date
27-4-2023 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been used drastically and systemically for a variety of reasons. Though this discovery has saved numerous lives and added several years onto the population’s lifespan, it hasn’t come without its drawbacks. Through years of consumption, practices such as overprescribing antibiotics, feeding it to livestock as well as not finishing the complete round of antibiotics given has catalyzed antibiotic resistance. Given that this provides a worldwide issue, the search for new strains of antibiotics is crucial and necessary. Upon the investigation of my own plant soil, I have gone through a few potential candidates against the race of finding a new antibiotic. Correspondingly, I’ve found and chosen the strongest microorganism that has shown inhibition against the strain Bacillus subtilis.
Antibiotics: The Fight Against Resistance
Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been used drastically and systemically for a variety of reasons. Though this discovery has saved numerous lives and added several years onto the population’s lifespan, it hasn’t come without its drawbacks. Through years of consumption, practices such as overprescribing antibiotics, feeding it to livestock as well as not finishing the complete round of antibiotics given has catalyzed antibiotic resistance. Given that this provides a worldwide issue, the search for new strains of antibiotics is crucial and necessary. Upon the investigation of my own plant soil, I have gone through a few potential candidates against the race of finding a new antibiotic. Correspondingly, I’ve found and chosen the strongest microorganism that has shown inhibition against the strain Bacillus subtilis.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Heather Seitz, Biology.