Review Proposed Changes
| Profile: | Aeromonas infections | ||
| Field: | description | ||
| Status: | Approved | ||
| Votes: | 8 | ||
| Submitter: | longhairedgit | ||
| Reason: | Just a tie-in update for general understanding of terms and symptoms. | ||
| Old Text: | This is a common saprophytic infection that causes serious disease in a range of aquarium, paludarium, and terrarium subjects. It is freely transmittable between all of the major piscine, amphibian and reptilian groups and persistant infections are one of the reasons many such communities fail without proper quarantine, and prevention. This condition consumes bodily sugers and minerals and while a general gastrointestinal complaint it is most lethal when attacking the kidney in fish. At the height of its lethality it can effectively dissolve tissue and may cause pieces of flesh to die, and circulation to be completely lost in extremities. In fish, visible symptoms may include, raised veins and redness especially on fins, on the caudal peduncle, and ony other semi-opaque or transparent areas. Later infections may show bloody sores, bloating and dropsy from the kindney damage, and necrosis of both internal and external tissues. In smaller fish , this infection commonly kills by necrosis of the gut, and there is often a characteristic swelling. The hydrogen sulphide gas may actually rupture the stomachs of small fish. Aeromonas infections are global, although there is variability in the strains. It can be devastating to wild populations if intriduced into ecosystems where the occupants have as yet no acquired multigenerational immununity. In the early nineties, aeromonas strains thought to have been introduced by the pet trade were responsible for reducing native fish and frog numbers radically in the UK. Common frogs were hardest hit, and infections nearly halved the population. Aeromonas are capable of destroying both fish and amphibian eggs as well as adults. -----------
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