STUDIES ON FISH AS A SOURCE OF SOME OCCUPATIONAL INFECTIONS

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Dept of Hygiene. Animal Ethology and Zoonoses Fac Vet Med. Cairo University

Abstract

Bacteriological examination was carried out on samples taken from the surfaces of 93 fish: Tilapia nilotica (35), mugil cephalus (40), Claris (18) and bands of 12 fish handlers.
The overall rate of isolation from the surface of fish amounted to Salmonella spp. (3.2%), Shigella - (2%) Klebsiella (6.5%), E. coli (12.9%) and Ervsapeiothnix juskosa (16.1%).

Main Subjects