Susceptibility of Pacific white shrimp to Vibrio alginolyticus infection under different oxygen saturations
Keywords:
Litopenaeus vannamei, dissolved oxygen saturation, bacterial infection.Abstract
Abstract: The present study aimed to evaluate the cumulative mortality, reactive oxygen species production (ROS) and total hemocyte counts (THC) of the marine shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei infected with Vibrio alginolyticus at different oxygen saturations. A total of 240 shrimp (10 ± 1.5g) were distributed into 16 tanks (60L), divided into two groups, infected and uninfected, which were subjected to 30 or 100% of saturation (in quadruplicate). During 72 hours after infection, daily hemolymph samples were collected for THC and ROS evaluation, and dead animals were removed and computed to assess cumulative mortality rates. Mortality was observed only in infected group, and was higher under 30% of saturation (97.2%) than 100% (77.8%), however, no significant differences were observed between THC and ROS production of infected and uninfected animals, under both saturations. Therefore, the results of this study suggested that hypoxia increases the susceptibility of the shrimps to vibrio infection, which may be not related to the modulation of THC and ROS production.Metrics
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