Investigation of some diseases of carp at al-Shamiya City Iraq

Abstract EN

The present study was conducted during (March, April, May, June , July and August-2009) months to investigate some diseases infected the carp fish at Al shamiya city / Diwaniya provence,715 samples of common carp, grass carp and silver carp were examined from local market and fish farms.

The diagnosis based on case history, clinical & necropsy findings, bacterial culture and wet mount.

Recorded results shows, there are 46(6.43 %) cases of acute and chronic form of heamorrhagic septicemia, 57(7.97 %) caeses of bacterial enteritis, 76 (10.63 %)of anchor worms( Lernaea),4 (0.56 %) of lice infestation, 3 (0.4 %) of cestodes and 65 (9 %) cases of Diplostomum spp., the total infection are 251(35.1 %) from 715 investigated samples.

The study showed there are diversity forms of diseases among carp spp.

In which the percentage of parasitic infections is the most abundant form of diseases(20.7 %) followed by diseases caused by bacterial infections (14.4 %) .