Bacteriocins: The Future of Microbial Inhibition?

By William Chi, Lorenzo Hernandez, Phoebe Yoonha Kim, and Emily Rose Leonard
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 2
2020
Bacteriocins: The Future of Microbial Inhibition?
Executive Summary 

To what extent can bacteria evolve resistance to bacteriocins? How does the rate of development of resistance compare between bacteriocins and antibiotics?

Problem Keywords 
bacteria
microbial
drug-resistant
antibiotic resistance
Scientific Keywords 
bacteriocin
nisin

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