10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 6 Issue 4 2015 (October - December) Foodborne illnesses are of great concern and serious global threat. There are both human and economical losses worldwide due to consumption of contaminated food and water. lessThan i greaterThan K. pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan , a Gram-negative rod shaped bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae is responsible for foodborne infections all over the world. Therefore, the aim of our study is to evaluate the incidence of lessThan i greaterThan Klebsiella pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan from food and environmental samples in Mysore region. A total of 82 samples were screened for the presence of possible contamination by lessThan i greaterThan K. pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan subsp lessThan i greaterThan pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan . Among these twenty three (28%) strains were confirmed as lessThan i greaterThan K. pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan subsp lessThan i greaterThan pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan by MALDI-TOF. The present study revealed a high percentage (53%) of incidence of lessThan i greaterThan Klebsiella lessThan /i greaterThan species from the samples. All the lessThan i greaterThan K. pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan subsp lessThan i greaterThan pneumoniae lessThan /i greaterThan were susceptible to all the antibiotics (26) excluding few strains. However, all the tested strains are resistant to ampicillin and all these strains were capable of forming biofilms. LITTY BABU, HARISHCHANDRA SHRIPATHY MURALI AND HARSH VARDHAN BATRA Foodborne pathogen, Klebsiella pneumoniae, MALDI-TOF, PCR 635-641