TY - JOUR AU - Afza, Rowshatul AU - Hussain, M Afzal AU - Khatun, Habiba AU - Yeasmin, Sabina AU - Hossain, Md Iqbal AU - Rahman, M Habibur PY - 2009/03/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Load of Aeromonas salmonicida in Swamp Water and its Pathogenicity to Koi, Anabas testudineus (Bloch) JF - Journal of Bio-Science JA - J bio-sci. VL - 15 IS - 0 SE - Short Communications DO - 10.3329/jbs.v15i0.2162 UR - https://banglajol.info/index.php/JBS/article/view/2162 SP - 181-184 AB - <p>Among the fishery resources, swamps are very important for various fish species such as <em>Oreochromis nilotica, Oreochromis mossambica, Anabas testudineus, Channa punctatus </em>and <em>Heteropneustes fossilis</em>. Swamps require shorter time and small investment for fish culture (Rahman <em>et al</em>. 1998). However, diseases are major problems in fish production both in culture system and wild condition in Bangladesh (Rahman and Chowdhury 1996). Bacteria, especially <em>Aeromonas </em>sp. is one of the causative agents of fish diseases. Bangladesh is situated in the tropical zone. Temperature is one of the important factors which affect the growth of pathogenic bacteria (Ljungh and Wadstrom 1982). <em>Aeromonas sobria </em>increases and grows at 17- 25°C (Rahman and Chowdhury 1996). <em>Aeromonas </em>sp. is the causative agent of various kinds of ulcerative disease of fishes (Karunasagar and Sugumar 1995). Yesmin <em>et al</em>. (2004) and Chowdhury and Baqui (1997) reported that <em>Aeromonas </em>is a very common pathogen in carps and live fishes. Hossain <em>et al</em>. (2006) worked on the bacterial load, <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </em>and their artificial infection to <em>Oreochromis niloticus</em>. The present study was undertaken to investigate the bacterial load in swamp water and the pathogenicity of <em>A. sobria </em>in <em>A. testudineus.</em>  </p> <p>doi: 10.3329/jbs.v15i0.2162</p> <p>J. bio-sci. 15: 181-184, 2007</p> ER -