National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The use of antimicrobial agents in integrated fish farms poses public health problem in a developing country like Nigeria. Materials used in this study were integrated fish farm, imported fish feed, pond water and fish guts respectively. Different bacteria were isolated from each material above and each isolate was characterized. Antibiotic susceptibility test was carried out on each isolate using commercially available antibiotic disks respectively. A total of 48 bacteria were isolated from the four samples. Pond water sample and pond sediment had a total of 14 (29.2%) bacteria isolates from Ringroad, Sawmill and Mobi respectively. Fish guts had a total of 11 (22.9%) of bacteria isolates from the three samples used. Lastly, 9 (18.7%) bacteria were isolated from the fish feed used in this study. Eleven species were isolated from the four specimen types. Escherichia coli occurs 7 (14.5%) in the four specimens while Aeromonas species, Salmonella species and Morganella morgani occur 5 (10.41%) in all the four sample types. Also, Proteus species, Enterobacter sp, Klebsiella sp and Serratia occur in all the four samples 4 (8.33%) while Provindencia sp. and Shigella sp occur 3 (6.25%) and 2 (4.16%) respectively. The result of antimicrobial susceptibility test by disk diffusion showed that Septrin (93%) and Chloramphericol (93%) had the highest resistance to all the bacteria isolates. This is followed by antibiotic resistance of Augumentin (67%) and Amoxacilllin (53%) respectively. However, this shows that there is need to evaluate the prevalence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in integrated fish ponds in order to prevent and control the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in pond environment.
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