Eric FreundtKeith Gandy, Danielle Oddo, Danielle Pett2018-03-062018-03-062016Gandy, Keith , Danielle Oddo , and Danielle Pett. “The Efficacy of Natural Antimicrobials and Antibiotics on Staphylococcus Aureus and an Unknown Environmental Isolate.” Acta Spartae, 2016. https://doi.org/10.48497/KFE0-8K67.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/315Recommended Citation: Gandy, Keith , Danielle Oddo , and Danielle Pett. “The Efficacy of Natural Antimicrobials and Antibiotics on Staphylococcus Aureus and an Unknown Environmental Isolate.” Acta Spartae, 2016. https://doi.org/10.48497/KFE0-8K67.The problem of antibiotic resistance is growing increasingly prominent as more microbes are evolving to evade traditional antibiotics. New antibiotics and treatments against virulent bacteria are becoming a necessity in the medical community. In this experiment, antimicrobial properties of homeopathic compounds were tested. Tea tree oil and apple cider vinegar were compared with three common antibiotics: vancomycin, erythromycin and cephalothin. These compounds were tested against the possibly virulent bacteria Staphylococcus aureus as well as an environmentally isolated strain that was identified to be a gram positive streptobacillus. The results of this experiment demonstrated that the homeopathic compounds created zones of inhibition. The zone diameter directly correlated with the susceptibility or resistance of that particular colony to the antibiotic. The zones from the homeopathic medicines and the antibiotic disks of vancomycin, cephalothin, and erythromycin were compared. The largest zones of inhibition with Staphylococcus aureus and the environmental isolate were generated by cephalothin. Although traditional antibiotics displayed the greatest antimicrobial properties, our results suggest that homeopathic compounds can successfully inhibit growth of potential pathogenic bacteria and should be considered for future clinical applications.en-USAntimicrobialsAntibioticsStaphylococcus aureusDepartment of BiologyResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCESResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES::BiologyArticlehttps://doi.org/10.48497/kfe0-8k67