Author

• Ghazi maleh Al-Malki

Abstract

The present study was carried out to determine the presence of pathogenic bacteria in
freshwater crab (Potamon mesopotamicum) in Tigris at North of Qurna, as well as their
antibiotic resistance. A total of 21 bacterial isolates consisting three bacterial species
were isolated from freshwater crab, P. aeroginosa, E. coli, A. hydrophila kanamycin was
found to be effective against all the bacterial isolated whilst the highest percentage of
antibiotic resistance was shown beyond to Lincomycin (76.4%) followed by
ampicilin(66.14%), Erythromycin(57.3%).

Keywords

• freshwater
• Lincomycin
• coli