journalINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SCISVolume 2 Issue 2MultidisciplinaryEnglish2020NNY20200430ArticleISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF SERRATIA MARCESCENS STRAIN NMRL65 AN OPPORTUNISTIC HUMAN PATHOGEN FROM THE SPOILED COCONUTEnglishY8186RajamaniMohanram1*EnglishNMurlidhar JMendki1EnglishYSusanTitus1EnglishY10.47062/1190.0202.02Microbes are the common cause of food spoilage and are widely distributed in the environment. Fruits and vegetables provide ideal nutrient conditions for the survival and growth of many types of bacteria. Bacteria responsible for food spoilage produce extracellular hydrolytic enzymes which bring about the deterioration of the food products. Coconut flesh is highly nutritious and rich in saturated fat, sugar and potassium that have wide range of health benefits. Fresh coconut flesh is often spoiled by red pigment producing bacterium Serratia. The present study was therefore undertaken and a red pigment producing opportunistic human pathogen Serratia marcescens strain NMRL 65 from spoiled coconut was isolated, identified and characterized for specific genes. Also its ability to produce multiple hydrolytic extracellular enzymeslike chitinase, lipase and protease wasinvestigated and reported.EnglishFood spoilage bacteria, Serratia marcescens, opportunistic human pathogen, lipase, protease, coconuthttps://journal.stenvironment.org/abstract?id=162References1619