Antagonistic activities of purple non-sulfur bacterial extracts against antibiotic resistant Vibrio sp.

Solvent extracts of native purple non-sulfur bacterial (PNSB) isolates from the effluents of brackish shrimp culture ponds, near Nagapattinam coast (South India) were evaluated for antibacterial activity by the disc diffusion method. Best results were shown by the chloroform extracts against oxytetracycline resistant Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio fischerii. Among the purple non-sulfur bacterial isolates, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, showed maximum antagonistic activity. The findings suggest that the antagonistic extracts from Rba. sphaeroides could be used as an effective antibiotic in controlling Vibrio spp., in aquaculture systems