World Aquaculture Singapore 2022

November 29 - December 2, 2022

Singapore

PHYTOTHERAPY OF FISH STREPTOCOCCOSIS

Mehdi Soltani 1,2*, Hien Van Doan3,4, Pezhman Hosseini-Shekarabi5, Einar Ringø6

 

1Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, msoltani@ut.ac.ir, 2Freshwater Fish Group and Fish Health Unit, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Australia. 3Department of Animal and Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. 4Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. 5Department of Fisheries Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 6Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Faculty of Bioscience, Fisheries and Economics, Udit The Arctic University of Norway, Trims, Norway

 



In recent decays trends have been carried to use phytotherapy as an alternative to antibiotic therapy against bacterial fish diseases. Extracts or essential oils of many different medicinal herbs and plants have been tested for their in vitro antibacterial activities in vivo bioassay against fish pathogenic Streptococcus species, but more attentions have been paid to Streptococcus iniae and S. agalactiae isolated from diseased fish. The in vitro susceptibility of S. dysagalactiae and S. parauberis strains with fish origin have been also evaluated using various medicinal herbs, but there is no report on S.  ubreis and S. phocae with fish origin. As different types of extractions, the extraction fractions and essential oils have been used for their antagonistic activity by different assays, it is therefore, difficult to compare the outcome results. This presentation addresses the efficacy and potency of medicinal herbs/plants as possible alternative to antibiotics for control and treatment of streptococcal infections in fish, and discuss the gaps required future works.