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Introducing a Novel Media to Improve the Recovery of Culturable Bacteria from the Fish Parasite Anisakis spp. larvae (Nematoda: Anisakidae)

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This paper describes a cultivation method to increase the recovery of bacteria from the marine muscle-invading parasitic nematode larvae of Anisakis spp. These larvae hold a high and complex population of accumulated bacteria, originating from seawater, crustaceans, fish, and marine mammals, all involved in the lifecycle of Anisakis. Two in-house agars based on fish juice prepared by either mechanical or enzymatic degradation of the fish tissue, were made. The Anisakis larvae were homogenised prior to cultivation on the in-house fish juice agars and the bacterial numbers and diversity were compared to those obtained applying the commercially available Marine Agar and Iron Agar Lyngby. Bacterial colonies of unique appearance were subcultured and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Totally three of twenty identified taxa were found on the in-house fish juice agars only. Fish juice agar prepared enzymatically would be the best supplementary agar, as this agar gave significantly higher heterotrophic plate counts, compared to mechanical preparation. The enzymatically prepared fish juice gave more suitable agar quality, was more resource efficient, and had apparently increased nutrient density and availability.

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Svanevik, C.S., Lunestad, B.T. Introducing a Novel Media to Improve the Recovery of Culturable Bacteria from the Fish Parasite Anisakis spp. larvae (Nematoda: Anisakidae). Curr Microbiol 74, 1043–1048 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-017-1281-3

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