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Occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Its Specific Phages from Shrimp Ponds in East Coast of India

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Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a natural microflora of marine and coastal water bodies and associated with mortality of larval shrimp in penaeid shrimp in ponds. Bacteriophages occur virtually in all places where their hosts exist. In this study, total distribution of V. parahaemolyticus and its phages were examined in shrimp ponds, seawater, estuary, animal surface, and tissues. Total vibrio count in sediments of two ponds was found to be 2.6 × 103 and 5.6 × 103 cfu/g. Incidence of V. parahaemolyticus in the ponds was close, while it was markedly higher in the animal surface and tissue samples. Biochemically identified eight strains of V. parahaemolyticus (V1, V3–V6, V9, V11, and V12) were taken for further infection studies with bacteriophage. Totally five bacteriophages capable of infecting V. parahaemolyticus MTCC-451 strain were isolated from all the samples. One of the isolated bacteriophage Vp1 from estuary was able to lyse all the isolated V. parahaemolyticus strains we used. Therefore, the morphology of Vp1 was estimated in TEM. Vp1 phage head measuring approximately about 50–60 nm diameter with icosahedral outline and a contractile tails of diameter 7 nm and length 100 nm and it was identified as Myoviridae. Therefore, the phages have the potential application in destroying bacterial pathogens.

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We thank our Director Prof. T. Balasubramanian for his kind cooperation and encouragement during our research. And we thank Prof. Puspha Viswanathan, Department of Electron Microscopy, Cancer institute, Chennai, India, for his interest and kind privilege to take photograph for this research work.

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    K. M. Alagappan, B. Deivasigamani, S. T. Somasundaram & S. Kumaran

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Alagappan, K.M., Deivasigamani, B., Somasundaram, S.T. et al. Occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Its Specific Phages from Shrimp Ponds in East Coast of India. Curr Microbiol 61, 235–240 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-010-9599-0

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