Emergence of Antibiotic-Producing Microorganisms in Residential Versus Recreational Microenvironments.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify novel antibiotic-producing microbial strains with unprecedented pertinence. We hypothesize that site-specific soil samples will contain a variety of antibiotic-producing species (APS) with diverse specificity of molecular elements.

Place and duration of study

Laboratory of Microbiology, Division of Biological and Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA-16701, USA, between August 2010 and May 2011.

Methodology

The environmental soil samples were collected from residential and recreational sites in Southern, PA, USA at longitude: -76 42 21.7116, latitude: 39 56 35.7252; approximately 201 meters above sea level. Over 70 natural antibiotic-producing soil bacteria were screened against 19 pathogenic microorganisms. Agar-plug assay was estab

SUBMITTER: Woappi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4162663 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature