Antimicrobial potential of newly isolated Aspergillusterreus MK-1: An approach towards new antibiotics.

Objective: To attempt discovering new bioactive metabolites from fungal sources.

Methods: The exploratory study was conducted at the Department of Microbiology, Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi from January 2016 to November 2017and comprised of soil samples collected from rhizosphere region of different garden plants from the city. Fungi were screened for production of antibiotics by testing cell-free culture filtrates obtained by Shake-flask fermentation technique.