Descriptive Study of the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg

Co-Investigators

Betsy Foxman, Carl Marrs, Lixin Zhang, Gabriel Trueba, William Cevallos Trujillo, James Trostle, Karen Levy, Alan Hubbard

Funding Sources

National Science Foundation

About this Project

This study aims to characterize the profile of antibiotic resistant E. coli bacteria in different environmental media (hands, kitchen surface, water, soil, flies, and manure), and to compare to profiles within human and chicken stool samples.