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Blood culture results from healthy captive and free-ranging elasmobranchs.
- Source :
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Journal of aquatic animal health [J Aquat Anim Health] 2007 Sep; Vol. 19 (3), pp. 159-67. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Blood culture is a diagnostic tool used in confirming bacterial disease in teleostean and elasmobranch fishes. Unlike teleosts, elasmobranchs have a normal microflora in multiple organs, but their blood has generally been considered to be sterile. In regular exams of elasmobranchs conducted at a public aquarium, occasional blood samples have tested positive on culture. This finding prompted a blood culture survey of healthy captive and wild elasmobranchs (sharks and stingrays), which showed that 26.7% of all animals were positive. Stingrays alone showed a 50% occurrence of positive blood cultures, although the total number of animals was low and freshwater species were included in this number. When elasmobranchs other than stingrays were evaluated according to metabolic category, pelagic animals had a higher percentage of positive cultures than nonpelagic animals (38.7% versus 13.9%). These results indicate that a single positive blood culture without other corroborating diagnostics is not sufficient to confirm septicemia in elasmobranchs.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Animals, Domestic
Animals, Wild
Bacteremia blood
Bacteremia microbiology
Fish Diseases microbiology
Population Surveillance
Sharks blood
Sharks microbiology
Skates, Fish blood
Skates, Fish microbiology
Skin Diseases, Bacterial blood
Skin Diseases, Bacterial microbiology
Bacteremia veterinary
Elasmobranchii blood
Fish Diseases blood
Skin Diseases, Bacterial veterinary
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0899-7659
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of aquatic animal health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18201057
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1577/H06-039.1