Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Zoonoses

The release of fecal pollution into aquatic environment may create environmental reservoirs of feces derived micro-organisms, including pathogens. Salmonella species and clostridium perfringens are which commonly used as fecal indicator that represents human pathogens. Therefore, this study was initiated to investigate the role of fish and fish products in transmitting of these micro - organisms to man. A total of 791 different samples (536 fish samples, 135 canned fish products, 11 water samples and 109 human samples) were randomly collected from markets in Elgiza and aquaculture in Elfayoum governorates. Salmonella species were isolated from cultured samples and identifying them by biochemical tests (traditional and RapID ONE). The occurrence of Salmonella species in fish, fish products, water and human samples was 0.4, 0.7, 0.0 and 1.8% respectively. On other hand, isolation and identification of C.perfringens in fish, fish products, water and human samples evidenced that 41, 17.8, 27.3 and 65.1% respectively, were positive for this pathogen. The pathogencity of C.perfringens is associated with its expression of multiple toxins therefore; typing of the suspected C.perfringens isolates was done using multiplex PCR

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