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Background  Animal behavioral responses have been recently established as a suitable tool for detecting contaminants in the environment for risk assessment  in situ . In this study, we observed movement behavior of zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) before and after infection with  Edwardsiella tarda  CK41 for 3 days until death.    Methods  Infection status of zebrafish was confirmed through PCR and colonization assay as time progressed and lesion development in the tails of zebrafish was also examined. Movement behaviors in response to bacterial infection were patterned by self-organizing map (SOM) based on movement parameters, including speed ( mm/s ), acceleration ( mm/s   2  ), stop duration ( t ), stop number ( n ), locomotory rate ( mm/s ), turning rate ( rad/s ), and meander ( rad/mm ).Results  According to SOM result, clusters were identified firstly according to time and secondly according to infection. Two movement patterns were observed in the early period of infection: one group with minimum turning rate and meander (i.e., stiff movement) and the other group with maximum strop number. Late infection was characterized by long stop duration.    Conclusion  SOM was suitable for extracting complex behavioral data and thus can serve as a referencing system for diagnosing disease development in order to reveal the mechanism of the infection process.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12917-015-0579-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Analysis of zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior in response to bacterial infection using a self-organizing map