Establishing a Causal Connection in the Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg

Co-Investigators

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

Funding Sources

National Science Foundation

About this Project

Using the stool samples collected in the Regional Scale Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance study, E. coli DNA will be extracted from each sample and used to create microarray chips. The chips will in turn be used to "fingerprint" each strain, and bioinformatic techniques will be used to estimate genetic diversity, and identify linkages between humans and animals.