Utilization of Bulk Drugs by a Highly Antibiotic Resistant Microorganism Isolated from Waste Water of a Bulk Drug Industry

An inoculum is collected from the activated sludge of the biological treatment plant of a basic drug manufacturing company in Kolkata producing Citric Acid. This inoculum is cultured and a microorganism is isolated and identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa named as Pseudomonas aeruginosa SSP1. It is understood that the organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa SSP1 grows by utilizing Citric Acid as a carbon source. This bacterium is found to be highly resistant to a large number of antibiotics and non-antibiotics, thereby proving the danger that may be present in the pharmaceutical wastewater in one side and on the other confirming the potentiality of the bacteria to degrade the compounds and bioremediate the pharmaceutical effluents.