ANALYSIS OF MICROBIAL ISOLATE FROM CONTAMINATED STREET FOOD WITH A POTENTIAL TO DEGRADE FOOD WASTE

Abstract

Contaminated food stuff is a potential source of bacteria with interest encompassing mirid attributes prompting their exploitation in assorted applications including environment domain like degradation of waste and discarded food. Street food has bacterial contamination like Salmonella sp., Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus sp., Mostly non-significance bacteria are present in the street foods but still point to environmental contamination, in this work food samples were collected and serially diluted, isolated confirmed using different media. The isolation and identification process were done to know and characterise the bacteria via 16 s rRNA gene sequence and the DNA these further elucidated via BLAST search engine.