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Efficacy of agglutination test in diagnosis of motile <i>Aeromonas septicemia</i> in Nile tilapia (<i>Oreochromis niloticus</i>)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Fish Diseases

Abstract

Bacterial diseases are the most common diseases among cultured fish. Aeromonas hydrophila considered the most important freshwater bacterial fish pathogen. Early diagnosis considered the cornerstone in controlling the disease. Biochemical method is laborious, expensive and time consuming whereas agglutination test is simple, rapid, accurate inexpensive and the test can be performed in field conditions. In the present study, agglutination test was established for diagnosis A. hydrophila infection in Oreochromis niloticus. A. hydrophila was isolated from naturally infected fish then distracted to subunits somatic and flagellar antigens. The prepared antigen was reacted with positive antisera of A. hydrophila which produced distinct tiny clumps. The sensitivity and specificity of slide agglutination test against collected sera were 90%, 77.5% respectively in case of somatic antigen and 92.5%, 72.5% in case of flagellar antigen. It could be concluded that agglutination test can be used as screen test for diagnosis of A.hydrophila infection in fish farms and the method can be diagramed on other bacteria.

DOI

10.21608/eja.2018.44524

Keywords

aeromonas, agglutination, antigen and Oreochromis niloticus

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Eladawy

MiddleName

Mohamed

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Researcher, Fish health and management Department , Central Laboratory for Aquaculture Research , Egypt

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eladawy3m83@gmail.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ali

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Fish desease Department, CentralLaboratory for Aquaculture Research, ARC, Egypt

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First Name

Ahmed

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Abdel Wahab

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Fish desease department, Central laboratory for Aquaculture Research, ARC, Egypt

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ahmedgaber869@gmail.com

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8

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1

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5921

Issue Date

2018-03-01

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2019-08-10

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2018-03-01

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12

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2090-7877

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2636-3984

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826

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Egyptian Journal for Aquaculture

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Efficacy of agglutination test in diagnosis of motile <i>Aeromonas septicemia</i> in Nile tilapia (<i>Oreochromis niloticus</i>)

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22 Jan 2023