Using_A_Gram_Stain_To_Dectect_Bacteria_In_The_Hemolyph_Of_Pa

Using A Gram Stain To Dectect Bacteria In The Hemolyph Of Pacific Oyster Using a gram stain to detect bacteria Norcardia crassostreae in the hemolymph of Pacific oyster Crassostrae gigas. Aquaculture or the farming of aquatic organisms is a method to relive the fishing pressure on wild stocks and may offer tremendous socio-economic benefits to both developing and wealthy countries. Many countries are finding the farming of aquatic organisms such as shellfish to be an effective and beneficial alternative means to increase abundance of catch. The practice of aquaculture has suffered in many countries due to disease among the shellfish, which can kill up to 80% of the harvest (Wooten et al.2003 ),(Rodriguez et. al.200) and spread sickness to people eating infected shellfish. The sustainability of shrimp culture is questionable as pathological problems in the majority of shrimp producing countries is increasing (Bachere 2000). An understanding of the physiology of the defense systems in invertebrates may allow for more efficient control of the shellfish, which can be carriers of disease. Shellfish have an adaptive immune system, meaning they must respond to every infection as if it were the first (Adema et al. 1991). Unlike humans who have an acquired immune system, shellfish do not have lymphocytes and do not have the hemolymph, shellfish, bacteria, slide, shrimp, sample, oyster, disease, using, et, detect, countries, test, parasite, organisms, work, ways, type, testing, system, sperm, procedure, possible, placed, off, norcardia, minute, materials, located, large, lab, iodine, invertebrates, infection