“…Although the number of farms using colistin was low, the high resistance to colistin was consistent with previous studies that performed antibiograms for V. parahaemolyticus isolates from seafood, clinical and environmental samples (e.g., Elexson et al, 2014; Obaidat et al, 2017; Sudha et al, 2014) and showed high resistance to colistin sulfate. In addition, our findings indicated that the use of antibiotics in prevention and treatment was different from the results reported in a previous study (Thinh et al, 2020), where farms mostly used amoxicillin (26.6%), followed by cotrim (20.0%), in the rearing of white leg shrimp in the Tra Vinh Province of the Mekong Delta. Our findings support a previous study (Liu et al, 2019) that identified tetracycline, quinolone, sulfadiazine, and erythromycin resistance genes in the intestinal bacteria of shrimp ( Penaeus vannamei ) by PCR, as well as 62 distinct ARGs (such as aac, macrolides, quinolones, tet, bla, and peptide antibiotics) by plasmid metagenomic analysis.…”