The isolated colonies were characterized based on their morphology and biochemical characteristics. The isolates were phenotypically characterized as Bacillus spp., Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus cereus and E. faecium. The isolate E. faecium BDU7 was characterized as gram positive cocci, negative for catalase, oxidase, indole, hydrogen sulphide production and voges proskauer test, grew in medium containing 6.5% sodium chloride, no gas production from glucose and they ferment sucrose, fructose, arabinose, glucose and lactose. Further, the strain was characterized genotypically
by 16S rRNA sequencing and submitted to NCBI gene bank with the accession number JX 847611. The phylogenetic analysis showed the sequence to cluster with E. faecium with a bootstrap value of 0.05 and shared 98% sequence homology with E. faecium LMG 11423