Microbial flora of pond-reared brown shrimp (Penaeus aztecus).

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1971

Authors

Vanderzant, C.
Nickelson, R.
Judkins, P.W.

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Agar plate counts and microbial types are reported for brown shrimp reared along West Galveston Bay in 2-acre natural marshland and in 0.5-acre artificial ponds during June to October 1970. Bacterial counts of pond-reared shrimp ranged from 5 X 10^4 to 5.5 X 10^6 per gram. At final harvest in October, bacterial counts ranged from 2 X 10^5 to 5.5 X 10^6 per gram. In marsh ponds, bacterial counts of shrimp and pond water were lowest in August when both water temperature and salinity were high. Coryneform bacteria and to a lesser extent Vibrio were the predominant isolates from fresh pond shrimp. Shrimp stored at 3 to 5C for 7 days were acceptable as judged by appearance and odor. Between 7 and 14 days of refrigerated storage, bacterial counts increased sharply and about 50% of the samples became unacceptable. Refrigerated storage of pond shrimp caused increases in coryneform bacteria and micrococci and decreases in Vibrio, Flavobaterium, Moraxella, and Bacillus species. Pseudomonas species were not significant in fresh or stored pond shrimp. The microbial flora of pond water usually was dominated by coryneform bacteria, Flavobacteruim, Moraxella, and Bacillus species.

Description

p. 916-921.

Keywords

shrimp culture, bacteria, Vibrio sp., Flavobacterium sp., Moraxella sp., Bacillus sp., microbial contamination, microbiological analysis, Penaeus aztecus, brown shrimp, marshes

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