Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2286-2294.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.12.08

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Isolation and biological characteristics of a pathogenic ST-251 Aeromonas hydrophila from Procypris Rabaudi (rock carp)

CHEN Mengzhu1(), KANG Zhenya1, GUO Xianghui1, GENG Yi1,*(), BAI Minghuan2, OUYANG Ping1, CHEN Defang3, HUANG Xiaoli3, LAI Weimin1   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
    2. Zigong Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Zigong 643000, China
    3. College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
  • Received:2021-01-22 Online:2021-12-25 Published:2022-01-10
  • Contact: GENG Yi

Abstract:

To explore the causes of epidemic diseases characterized by body surface bleeding in a Procypris rabaudi farm in Yibin, the pathogen and its biological characteristics were identified by physiological and biochemical characteristics,research on the pathogenesis,16S rDNA, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and Kirby-Bauer (K-B). A pathogenic bacterium (YYL) was isolated from liver and kidney of diseased fish, and identified as Aeromonas hydrophila.When the water temperature was (24±1) ℃, its median lethal dose (LD50) was 5.8 × 10 4 CFU·g-1 for rock carp weight of (12.6±0.8) g. Drug sensitivity test showed that the YYL was sensitive to many drugs, such as ceftazidime, gentamicin, doxycycline, enrofloxacin, florfenicol, but resistant to imipenem, roxithromycin, compound sulfamethoxazole, clindamycin. The isolated A. hydrophila belonged to ST-251 type by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and carried virulence genes aerA, hlyA, aphA, act, ast. In this study, ST-251 A. hydrophila was isolated from the diseased rock carp characterized by body surface hemorrhage. This strain carried a variety of virulence factors and had strong pathogenicity. Therefore, it was necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of this pathogen infection in the cultivation of rock carp.

Key words: Aeromonas hydrophila, isolation and identification, multilocus sequence typing, virulence factor, drug resistance, Procypris rabaudi

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