Considering how much of this TB problem may be the hidden part of the
iceberg when we consider the monetary implications for the aquarium fish and
aquaculture industries as well as the possibilities of human infection in
these 2 as well as swimming pool granulomas, whale and porpoise shows,
public aquaria and all the people involved along the way we could make a
good case to the politicians to fund research towards the development of a
cheap reliable test for Mycobacteria.
Once we have such a test then supplementary tests for virulence(?animal
innoculation) and ID (sensitivity to antibiotics, culture requirements etc)
would follow.
If our US members, our Oz members and our various European members all
mounted a co-ordinated approach who knows what we might acheive?
What do you all think???
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen, A.N.G.F.A., Advancing Australian Aquatics.
Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Mach T. Fukada <fukada at hawaii.edu>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Saturday, 9 January 1999 6:40
Subject: Re: [RML] Dark half or quarter on rainbowfish
>Adrian,
> I have often wondered about this. It seems fairly reasonable that it is
>possible to select for resistance to the disease. However are we creating
>a bigger problem as these fish could be asymptomatic carriers of the
>disease and make it possible to further desemminate virulent strains of the
>disease. Then people with non-resistant fish get their (wild caught, etc)
>fish wiped out by the recieving some time bombs, with fuses that might go
>off in a few weeks, days, or years. Would be nice to get some kind of
>quickand dirty test (serilogical) to do a detection, but with the
>prevelence of the mycobacterium (pathogenic and non-pathogenic) it seem
>likely that such a test would result in many false positives.