Bacterial Fish Diseases in some Semi-close Aquaculture Systems in Basrah Province, Iraq

Abstract

The object of this study was to detect the bacterial species that founded in infected common carps Cyprinus carpio in semi-closed systems in two districts of Basrah province. Bacterial gill disease, skin ulcer disease and intestine inflammatory disease were recorded. In the present study, Aeromonas sobria (38.46) was the predominant species, followed by Citrobacter freundii (29.23), Vibrio cholerae (21.53) and Serratia fonticola (10.76%). Identification of the isolates was carried out depending on the morphology of colony, specific media and identification using VITEK 2 system (Biomerieux- USA). Five antibiotic discs were used for antibiotic sensitivity test by the disk diffusion method. A. sobria was sensitive to Nitrofurantion, V. cholerae was sensitive to Ampicillin, C. freundii was resistance for all antibiotics while S. fonticola was sensitive to Gentamicin. This study represented the first investigation in Iraq on bacterial isolates from semi- closed system.

Isolation and identification of some Bacterial Species from Common carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758) in Taqtaq District in Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

“…This species was isolated in Iraq for the first time from four different Marian fish species (Majeed et al, 2016). It was later recorded from C. carpio (Jassim et al, 2019). No further record was reported for S. fonticola.…”

Checklists of Protozoans and Myxozoans of Freshwater and Marine Fishes of Basrah Province, Iraq

“…Some reports on fish protozoans and myxozoans were done on Shatt Al-Arab River (Sharma, 1977;, 1989a, b, 1992a, 1993Eassa et al, 2014) and its creeks and canals which included those from Al-Ashar Canal (Bhatti, 1979), Mehaijeran Creek, south of Basrah City (Khamees, 1983;Mhaisen et al, 1986), Garmat Ali River, north of Basrah City (Jori, 1998;Al-Dosary, 1999;Adday, 2001;Al-Niaeem, 2002Kadhim, 2009; and Al-Salihiya Canal, east of Basrah City (Al-Janae'e, 2010). Some reports were done on protozoans and myxozoans from some farm fishes, cage fishes and aquarium fishes of Basrah Province (Al-Salim, 1992b;Salih, 2005;Jassim, 2007;Ahmed and Ali, 2013;Eassa et al, 2014).…”

“…Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Fouquet, 1876 was reported from ten fish species in Basrah Province. These were C. luteus from three satations viz., Mehaijeran Creek (Khamees, 1983;Mhaisen et al, 1986), Al-Ashar Fish Market and Al-Hammar Marsh (Al-Daraji, 1986), Carassius auratus from Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Ctenopharyngodon idella from Basrah University Experimental Aquaculture Station (Jassim, 2007), C. carpio from Basrah University Experimental Aquaculture Station (Al-Daraji et al, 2002a;Jassim, 2007;Ahmed and Ali, 2013), from Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010) and from fish cages at Al-Qurnah City and Al-Dayr Town as well as from the river at Al-Qurna City, Al-Dayr Town and Abul-Khaseeb City (Eassa et al, 2014), Gambusia holbrooki from Garmat Ali River (Kadhim, 2009), Garra rufa from Shatt Al-Arab River , L. vorax (reported as A. vorax) from Al-Hammar Marsh Al-Daraji and Al-Salim, 1990) and from Basrah Fish Market (Mhaisen, 1986(, P. abu (reported as L. abu) from Garmat Ali River (Jori, 1998;Al-Dosary, 1999), Poecilia latipinna from Garmat Ali River (Kadhim, 2009) and S. triostegus from Al-Hammar Marsh (Jori, 2006;Abbas, 2007). I. multifiliis was recorded for the first time in Iraq from P. subviridis (reported as Mugil dussumieri) from Tigris River at Baghdad by Herzog (1969).…”

“…Trichodina domerguei (Wallengren, 1897) Haider, 1964 was reported from skin and gills of 19 fish species from Basrah Province. These hosts included Acanthobrama marmid from Garmat Ali River and Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Acanthopagrus arabicus (reported as A. latus) from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Alburnus mossulensis from Garmat Ali River and Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Arabibarbus grypus (reported as B. grypus) from Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), C. luteus (reported as B. luteus) from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Carassius auratus from Garmat Ali River and Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), C. idella from Basrah University Experimental Aquaculture Station and Fry Caring Ponds (Jassim, 2007), C. carpio from Basrah University Fish Farm at Al-Tanuma town , from Basrah University Experimental Aquaculture Station and Fry Caring Ponds (Jassim, 2007), from Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010) and from fish cages at Al-Qurnah City, Al-Dayr Town and Abu Al-Khaseeb City as well as from rivers at Al-Qurnah City, Al-Dayr Town and Abu Al-Khaseeb City (Eassa et al, 2014), G. holbrooki from Garmat Ali River (Kadhim, 2009), H. fossilis from Al-Hammar Marsh (Mohamad, 1989;Al-Salim and Mohamad, 1995), Hypophthalmichthys molitrix from Basrah University Experimental Aquaculture Station and Fry Caring Ponds (Jassim, 2007), Luciobarbus xanthopterus (reported as B. xanthopterus) from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010), Mastacembelus mastacembelus from Garmat Ali River (Adday, 2001), M. pelusius from Garmat Ali River (Adday, 2001), P. abu (reported as L. abu) from Garmat Ali River (Jori, 1998; and from Al-Salihiya Canal (Al-Janae'e, 2010), P. subviridis (reported as L. subviridis) from Shatt Al-Arab River (Al-Salim, 1992a) and from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010), P. latipinna from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010), S. triostegus from Garmat Ali River (Adday, 2001; and from Al-Hammar Marsh (Jori, 2006) and Sparidentex hasta from Garmat Ali River (Al-Janae'e, 2010). Al-Salim (1992a) claimed that T. domerguei was detected from the blood of P. subviridis (reported as L. subviridis).…”