Table 1.

Physiological characterization of the isolated B. cereus HKS 1–1 (†), B. cereus LOCK 1,002 (‡) and B. cereus BF2 (§) is mentioned at 24 hr of incubation, with all significant (a) Two‐way ANOVA test p values (in scale of significance p < .05). The p values are .0014* (§), .0489** (†) and .0002*** (†) (which are all significant values for bile salt tolerance, pH tolerance and phenol tolerance test, respectively). In all cases, ‘‡’ was statistically insignificant

pH **	OD650			Bile Salt (%)*	OD650			Phenol (%) ***	OD516
	24 hr				24 hr				24 hr
	†a	‡	§		†	‡	§a		†a	‡	§
2	0.43	0.486	0.507	0.1	0.144	0.152	0.149	0.1	0.625	0.744	0.624
3	0.334	0.35	0.33	0.2	0.156	0.157	0.155	0.2	0.619	1.355	0.648
4	0.356	0.35	0.35	0.3	0.164	0.164	0.155	0.3	0.626	1.825	0.63
								0.4	0.637	2.205	0.626