Epidemiology of aermonas hydrophila infection in ducks transmitted from fish in duck-fish farm [electronic resource].

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This study was carried out to concise the pathological relationship, which may occur between ducks and fish in the integrating duck-fish-farms. Duckling 21- day-old were experimentally infected with Aeromonas hydrophila (A. hydrophila), which was previously isolated from fish. The infection was induced by different routes; Intraperitoneally, intramuscularly, subcutaneously and orally. Other three additional groups were kept in contact with experimentally infected groups (in the same pens). The symptoms, post mortem lesions and mortality rate differed according to the route of infection. The mortality rate ranged from 40% (in intraperitoneal infection) to 0% (in oral infected and contact groups). Reisolation of A.hydrophila could be achieved from different internal organs of dead birds but in varying percentages.

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