the inhibition of pathogens growth as well as the shelf-life extension of seafood as a perishable product using safe methods is one of the most important issues that have been attracted fisheries and food science researcher’s attention. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the inhibitory effect of bunium persicum essential oil (eo) on inoculated listeria monocytogenes growth in simulated b...

We evaluated the survival of Streptococcus agalactiae from naturally infected wild mullet (Liza klunzingeri) and experimentally infected Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) frozen at 20 and 70 jC, respectively, for an extended period of time. The brain, eye, head kidney, and intestine of individually frozen wild mullet (N = 22), culture positive for S. agalactiae from fresh tissues following a...

Cross-cultural comparisons of categorization often confound cultural factors with expertise. This paper reports four experiments on the conceptual behavior of Native American and majority-culture fish experts. The two groups live in the same general area and engage in essentially the same set of fishing-related behaviors. Nonetheless, cultural differences were consistently observed. Majority-cu...

Sangam literature conveys to us the high character, way of life, and experience Tamils. The five divisions ancient Tamil society (ainththinai) were characterised by numerous cultures. In later stage, based on term attribute, word "culture" was constructed. Culture refers biological structure human society. One main elements culture is food. Tamils excelled in cooking food with taste, selecting ...

With fluorescently labeled PNA (peptide nucleic acid) probes targeting 16S rRNA, we established a 3-h fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) procedure for specific visualization of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, M. leprae, M. avium, and M. kansasii. Probe specificity was tested against a panel of 25 Mycobacterium spp. and 10 gram-positive organisms. After validation, prob...

Background: Test of pahogenecity of fish pathogens usually done by injection or ingestion of the bacterial samples on the fish. Objective of the current research was to introduce a new method of testing pathogenecity of fish pathogens through an artificial infection system. The targeted method was to observe the pathogenecity in aquarium condition by direct infection of the system water with ba...

A highly pathogenic isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila, isolate No1, was identified through evaluation of the Crude extra-cellular product and estimation of LD50. Three types of formalized whole culture Aeromonas hydrophila vaccine (FWC) were prepared, FWC vaccine alone, FWC vaccine mixed with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA), and FWC vaccine mixed with Freund's incomplete adjuvant (FIA), tested f...

Composite culture of edible fishes (common carp, Cryprinus carpio; silver carp, Hypopthalmithys molitrix, grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella; catla, Catla catla; rohu, Labeo rohita; and mrigal, Cirrhinus mrigala) in rice fields in the Cauvery delta of Tamil Nadu, southern India, resulted in 81.0% reduction in the immature mosquito population of anophelines and 83.5% of culicines. Analysis of f...

Fish are a rich source of proteins beneficial to heart and eyes. Being perishable, they are processed immediately after collection. Water consumption in fish-processing industry is very large and high strength wastewaters rich in salts, ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N), organic load are generated which cannot be discharged without any treatment. The present investigation describes development of bio...

A new bacteriological medium Modified Fish Meal Extract agar was tested for its efficacy in promoting the growth of P aeruginosa normally encountered in clinical specimens. 50 specimens each of sputum, pus and urine samples were cultured on Modified Fish Meal Extract Agar and the results were compared with normal Nutrient agar and Blood agar. There was 100% conformity in the results compared wi...