Philippine catfish, Clarias batrachus farming is receiving much attention in recent years so also the diseases in catfish aquaculture. During the disease surveillance in catfish farms, mortalities were observed in C. batrachus fingerlings in a nursery and this report describes the bacteriological and histopathological observations made on the diseased catfish. The gross and clinical signs obser...

The nine laf (lateral flagellum) genes of mesophilic aeromonads are in the Aeromonas salmonicida genome. The laf genes are functional, except for lafA (flagellin gene), which was inactivated by transposase 8 (IS3 family). A pathogenic characteristic of mesophilic aeromonads (lateral flagella) is abolished in this specialized pathogen with a narrow host range.

—A vaccine comprising cells of Aeromonas bestiarum grown in tryptic soy broth and atypical A. salmonicida cells produced in iron-limited and iron-supplemented media protected goldfish Carassius auratus when administered by immersion (dosage ø 5 3 107 cells/mL for 60 s) followed after 28 d by an oral booster (dosage 5 5 3 107 cells/g of feed), which was fed for 7 d so that each fish received abo...