I will try to ask some of our leading experts in fish diseases if they see any
chance to cure TB in fish. I'm afraid they'll say no. However, TB is no serious
problem for most keepers as you can avoid it by good conditions and not too high
temperatures (below 25¡C).
Best regards
Harro Hieronimus, Solingen, Germany
harro.hieronimus at t-online.de
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No fish - no fun
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Bruce Hansen schrieb:
> The big problem with all this is time for resistance to develop. The cost of
> diagnosis and replacement stock etc is beyond most hobbyists as Carvi has
> found. These costs vary from place to place but here could range from A$50
> to A$100 more or less ( according to Dave Wilson).
>
> 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.
>