Testing for beta-lactamase genes in the bacterial strain Elizabethkingia anophelis

Abstract

In our experiment, we tested antibiotic resistance in Elizabethkingia anophelis. We did this experiment to help form a better understanding for which antibiotics can potentially cure meningitis. Several methods, such as cloning DNA, aragose gel electrophoresis, DNA ligation reactions, and heat shot transformation enabled us to properly test the our strand for resistance. We found that our strand was resistant to the Beta-lactamase antibiotic.