The aim of this study is the identification of the bacterial disease agents in cultured gilt-head seabream in Turkey and the determination of their antibacterial susceptibilities.
In this study, 27 cultured diseased gilt-head seabream specimens between 3-130 g showing some clinical symptoms of bacterial diseases supplied from 5 different fish farms (will be mentioned as Farm No.
Gilt-head seabream are commonly cultured in the Mediterranean basin and Turkey is one of leading countries in the production of this species (1,2).
It has been reported to be involved in the diseases of various cultured marine fish species such as gilt-head seabream, Atlantic salmon, European sea bass, red porgy and also rainbow trout cultured in marine and freshwater environment in Turkey (5,6,22-32).
As stated above among the Vibrio species isolated from gilt-head seabream in this study, V.
anguilliseptica, which causes winter disease, was previously recovered from moribund cultured gilthead seabream in France and this bacterium is rarely recovered from gilt-head seabream in Turkey (38,39).
As previously reported in long-term disease monitoring studies of gilt-head seabream (3,4,12), Gram-positive bacteria were also recovered in this study too.
anguilliseptica isolated from moribund gilt-head seabream in this study were both misidentified as Pseudomonas fluorescens/putida with this kit.
Survey of bacterial pathologies affecting farmed gilt-head sea bream (Sparus aurata L.) in southwestern Spain from 1990 to 1996.
Their mouth-watering menu of
gilt-head bream, rack of lamb and chocolate delice dazzled the judging panel, which included a Michelinstarred chef, and helped secure first prize ahead of eight other college teams from across the UK.
