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Investigation Of Nile Tilapia Mortalities During Summer 2019 In El-Manzala Fish Farms In Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, Amira M. M. El- Sherbiny, Moustafa M. S. Fouda, Medhat S. Shakweer, Viola H. Zaki
Investigation Of Nile Tilapia Mortalities During Summer 2019 In El-Manzala Fish Farms In Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, Amira M. M. El- Sherbiny, Moustafa M. S. Fouda, Medhat S. Shakweer, Viola H. Zaki
Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal
Objective: To identify suspected causes of mass mortality in Oreochromis niloticus at El-Manzala fish farms in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, during disease outbreaks in the summer of 2019.
Design: Observational study.
Animals: Two hundred diseased and freshly dead Oreochromis niloticus (Nile tilapia) weighting 100-150 g.
Procedures: Collected fish samples were subjected to clinical, postmortem and bacteriological investigations regarding histopathological alterations, pathogenicity tests, and antibiogram susceptibility of the main isolated bacterial species.
Results: A total of 286 bacterial isolates were detected from all examined fish samples. Bacteriological examination revealed that all bacteria were gram-negative rods, which were identified as A. hydrophila (43.36%), …