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In vivo fish models for visualizing Aeromonas hydrophila invasion pathway using GFP as a biomarker
Authors:Wei-Hua Chu  Cheng-Ping Lu
Institution:

aDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Science & Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, PR China

bKey Lab of Animal Disease Diagnostic & Immunology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, PR China

Abstract:The invasion pathway of Aeromonas hydrophila in vivo was studied in Crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) with a virulent strain A. hydrophila J-1 transformed with a plasmid encoding green fluorescent protein (pGFPuv) (A. h J-1GFP), which had similar virulence characteristics (haemolysin, extracellular proteases production, toxicity for EPC cells, survival in fish serum and LD50 value) as the parent strain. Fish were divided into four experimental groups: (1) normal fish; (2) bacteria bath challenged, unwounded fish; (3) skin artificially wounded by scalpel, bacterial bath challenged fish; and (4) skin mucus layer partially removed by paper towel, bacterial bath challenged fish. The number of bacteria from blood, gills, kidney, muscle, liver and intestine were detected at 2, 4, 8, 12, and 24 h post-challenge. High bacterial numbers were observed in the muscle of the artificial wound group, in the kidney of the mucus removed group and in the gills of all groups. In conclusion, the gills and damaged skin are likely to be the main routes of entry for A. hydrophila, and GFP can be used as a real-time biomarker to study intimate host–pathogen interaction in fish.
Keywords:Aeromonas hydrophila  Green fluorescent protein (GFP)  Invasion
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