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Mass mortalities in silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes) associated with bacterial infection following handling
Author(s) -
BEJERANO Y.,
SARIG S.,
HORNE M. T.,
ROBERTS R. J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2761.1979.tb00139.x
Subject(s) - hypophthalmichthys , silver carp , biology , carp , scarification , feces , inoculation , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , zoology , fishery , fish <actinopterygii> , immunology , botany , medicine , germination , dormancy
. Mass mortalities in silver carp were related to infection of handling lesions with Proteus rettgeri , a gram negative bacterium normally found in the gut of poultry. Poultry faeces are used extensively to fertilize carp ponds and experimental infections showed that the condition could be reproduced by scarification and exposure to the micro‐organism or by its inoculation.