Anti-Bacterial Activity of Natural Plants on Fish Pathogens Isolated from Different Ponds of Dhaka City

In aquaculture, the incidence of bacterial resistance towards synthetic antibiotics has become a serious problem. Therefore, current research has been focused on detecting the presence of pathogenic bacteria in water bodies and finding a novel therapy against pathogens imparted by the natural produc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bangladesh journal of microbiology 2016-06, p.9-12
Hauptverfasser: Das, Kamal Kanta, Abedin, Ayesha, Noor, Rashed
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In aquaculture, the incidence of bacterial resistance towards synthetic antibiotics has become a serious problem. Therefore, current research has been focused on detecting the presence of pathogenic bacteria in water bodies and finding a novel therapy against pathogens imparted by the natural products replacing the use of synthetic antibiotics. A total of 10 pond water samples were analysed to determine the pathogenic load employing conventional cultural and biochemical tests. Anti-bacterial activities of natural plants on fish pathogens were determined using the agar-well-diffusion method. All the water samples studied high heterotrophic bacteria counts, which were upto 109 cfu/ml. Among bacterial pathogens, Pseudomonas spp. and Vibrio spp. were found to be present in 6 samples and Aeromonas spp. in 2 samples. The in vitro anti-bacterial activity of the herbal plant extracts against the bacterial pathogens revealed that most of the plant extracts are effective against the pathogenic bacterial isolates.Bangladesh J Microbiol, Volume 31, Number 1-2,June-Dec 2014, pp 9-12
ISSN:1011-9981
2408-8374
DOI:10.3329/bjm.v31i1.28458