Assessment of Chromogenic Media in Bacterial Fish Pathogens

Accurate and quick identification of bacterial fish disease has great importance for effective control prevent economic loss in aquaculture facilities. Generally used agar media allow the growth wide-range bacteria but new chromogenic results colored colonies that lead to presumptive without requiring biochemical or serological tests. In this study, recently commercialized media; chromID® CPS® Elite, Elite / Columbia CNA +5% sheep blood agar, Vibrio, MRSA Smart Staphylococcus aureus (BioMérieux, France) were tested with performance colony coloration pathogens. detected most suitable culture grow all five isolated pathogens (i.e., Aeromonas hydrophila, Lactococcus garvieae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Yersinia ruckeri Vibrio anguillarum). Of which, L. garvieae was only one observed green colonies. designed V. parahaemolyticus V cholerae dark pink/purple by anguillarum. The S. not incubation