The Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Start Date
27-4-2023 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance is becoming more prevalent among bacterial pathogens in the world today, causing concerning outbreaks and cases in patients with no options for treatment. As antibiotics are misused and health care workers continue to prescribe antibiotics for unnecessary health issues, resistance to these drugs is increasing significantly. Six pathogens, named ESKAPE pathogens, represent the most common and virulent strains of drug resistant bacteria. They are of utmost priority as new antibiotics are being actively searched out to overcome antibiotic resistant bacteria. My project this semester has attempted to discover an organism that produces antibiotic properties, implementing aseptic techniques learned throughout my research. The research has thus far consisted of performing a serial dilution from a soil sample, challenging the chosen candidate against all six of the ESKAPE pathogens, and gene sequencing. The goal is that by the end of my research I will have found a potential candidate for an antibiotic that can serve to inhibit the growth of one of the ever spreading ESKAPE pathogens, to aid in the fight of deadly antibiotic resistance.
The Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance is becoming more prevalent among bacterial pathogens in the world today, causing concerning outbreaks and cases in patients with no options for treatment. As antibiotics are misused and health care workers continue to prescribe antibiotics for unnecessary health issues, resistance to these drugs is increasing significantly. Six pathogens, named ESKAPE pathogens, represent the most common and virulent strains of drug resistant bacteria. They are of utmost priority as new antibiotics are being actively searched out to overcome antibiotic resistant bacteria. My project this semester has attempted to discover an organism that produces antibiotic properties, implementing aseptic techniques learned throughout my research. The research has thus far consisted of performing a serial dilution from a soil sample, challenging the chosen candidate against all six of the ESKAPE pathogens, and gene sequencing. The goal is that by the end of my research I will have found a potential candidate for an antibiotic that can serve to inhibit the growth of one of the ever spreading ESKAPE pathogens, to aid in the fight of deadly antibiotic resistance.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.