Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology, Faculty of Biological Science, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hawassa University, P.O. Box 05, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Begonesh Bekele, currently working at Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology, Faculty of Biological Science, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia. The area of interest in the research was Virology and Pathology in the habitat. The number of articles published was 07 and the number of tmes cited by, are 29.
Research Article
Hematological and Histopathological Changes in Artificially Infected Nile tilapia with vibrio species
Author(s): Begonesh Bekele, Natarajan P, Kassaye Balkew Workagegn* and Devika Pillai
Bacterial pathogens such as vibrio species cause a significantly high economical loss in the aquaculture sector.
Thus, the main objective of this study was to isolate and identify Vibrio species and evaluated the hematological,
biochemical, and histopathological changes in experimentally infected Nile tilapia with 0.1 ml of 1×106 colonyforming
units (CFU)/ml of Vibrio species isolates. The clinical examination of the infected Nile tilapia revealed
all fish became less active and the feeding rate decreased, the dorsal portion of the body became darkened. Fin
rot appeared especially at the tips of the caudal fin and showed extensive hemorrhages at the ventral body part.
The results also showed reduction in hemoglobin, hematocrit, protein, albumin, glucose, globulin, and triglyceride
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