activity and physiochemical variation (Rao et al., 1981;
Nayak et al., 2004; Patra et al., 2009, Patra et al., 2010).
Unfortunately progress made on pharmaceutical studies
of marine microorganism from ‘Chilika’ is inadequate. This
underpinned the present study with a view to investigating
the physiological, biochemical, and serological
characterization of bacteria isolated from marine waters of
‘Chilika’ aiming at their exploitation for pharmaceutical
benefits.