Speaker: Tiffany Haney
Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Biology
Time: 5:05 PM
Place: Trustee Hall 116
Supervisor: Dr. Allan Hook
Title: Antibiotic Resistance- Finding the Best Strategy for Reducing Resistance

Abstract: The threat to human health posed by antibiotic resistance is of growing concern. Many commensal and pathogenic organisms are developing resistance to well established and newer antibiotics. The decision of whether or not to make new antibiotics or to reduce the prescribing of currently used antibiotics are the two most common strategies science is using as ways to reduce antibiotic resistance. The materials and methods section examines the methods used in one study that will test whether antibiotic resistance is generated from over prescribing of antibiotics in urban populations. Results from this research will demonstrate that even though prescribing antibiotics is a cause in building antibiotic resistance, reduction of prescribing antibiotics is not a major component in reducing resistance. However, more in-depth research in antibiotic resistance is needed to verify such a conclusion. Advancing our understanding of the causes of antibiotic resistance is valuable to not only the medical research community but to society in general as well.