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Abstract
The pollution of the environment with heavy toxic metals is spreading all through the world
along with industrial progress. Microorganism have developed several mechanisms to tolerate
high concentration of heavy metals, for this purpose screening of copper resistant bacteria has
been attempted in these study. Total five copper resistant bacteria were isolated from industrial
waste water and soil sample. Based on morphological and biochemical characterization these
isolates were identified as Bacillus spp., (S1, W1), Pseudomonas spp.,(S2) and Staphylococcus
aureus. (W2, W3).The MIC of the isolates were tested with varying concentration of copper
from 50 µg/ml to 1200µg/ml. The antibiogram was done, it was found copper resistant bacteria
exhibited high resitant towards group of antibiotics.