Isolation and screening of Microorganisms from the street food From Ballari Region
*R Krishnaveni, Mangal Murthi. G, S Harish and K Ramya, Mahadevi
Department of PG Studies and Research in Microbiology, Vijayanagar Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ballari - 583105 India *E.mail. drkrishnaveni09@gmail.com, mangal.pujari1@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
During the past 10 years, the street food in India has expanded quickly in urban zones of low- and middle-income groups, providing a diversity of inexpensive foods for low-pay families and offering job opportunities for many local vendors. Among the various street food, panipuri or Gol gappas and Gobi are more popular. Selling of roadside foods without any protection against dust, smoke, uses of normal water without any treatment, poor handling as well as unhygienic conditions put together the street food one of the main resources of food borne illnesses. In regard to this a total of 20 samples were collected randomly from street vendors included Panipuri, Gobi Manchurian and tested for the presence of bacteria following standard microbiological method used for isolation, enumeration and identification of bacteria. Among which Escherichia coli was found highest 3(60%) Pani puri and Gobi samples, then another organisms Salmonella spp. was found highest 3 (43%) in pani puri one in each sample and also antibiotics sensitivity disc was used to determine the anti biogram profile of the isolates. These data revealed the presence of E. coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa from different ready to eat foods as well different reactions to certain antibiotic tested.