Start Date
27-4-2023 10:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Semester project started with diluting soil from a residential location in Blue Springs, Missouri. After testing any potential candidates from this soil against the ESKAPE pathogens, it was unsuccessful. The process restarted using soil from a residential location in Overland Park, Kansas hoping to find successful candidates that displayed antibiotic properties. The soil was then diluted in an attempt to grow individual colonies. With this dilution deeming successful, challenge plates were then created to test several potential candidates against the same ESKAPE pathogens used for the first dilution. More than one candidate was developed, but the one chosen is called “Sully”. Sully showed signs of antibiotic characteristics and showed the strongest resistance to many of the ESKAPE pathogens including Enterobacter faecalis and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Sully is a gram negative, non-spore forming, acid fast bacillus bacteria.
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Candidate University
Semester project started with diluting soil from a residential location in Blue Springs, Missouri. After testing any potential candidates from this soil against the ESKAPE pathogens, it was unsuccessful. The process restarted using soil from a residential location in Overland Park, Kansas hoping to find successful candidates that displayed antibiotic properties. The soil was then diluted in an attempt to grow individual colonies. With this dilution deeming successful, challenge plates were then created to test several potential candidates against the same ESKAPE pathogens used for the first dilution. More than one candidate was developed, but the one chosen is called “Sully”. Sully showed signs of antibiotic characteristics and showed the strongest resistance to many of the ESKAPE pathogens including Enterobacter faecalis and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Sully is a gram negative, non-spore forming, acid fast bacillus bacteria.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.