Sanitization of Commercial Frog Breeding Farms Helps Inhibiting the Spread of Mycobacterium spp. Within a Frog Breeding Farm in Lampang Province

Abstract

The experiment found that after implementing four sanitation measures in a frog farm with a bacterial infection Mycobacterium spp. resulted in a significant reduction in the death rate of tadpoles during 7-10 days and the number of dead parents (P<0.05), accounting for 2.62±1.05% and 0.18±0.24 pcs, respectively, making the number of tadpoles weight, and farmers had increased income from selling tadpoles with statistical significance (P<0.05), with an average of 7,892.77±12.64 pieces, 102.76±8.94 kilograms, and 17,892.77±274.36 baht, respectively. Additionally, no tadpoles with the appearance of ungrowing front legs and no unexplained death of tadpoles were found, and no bacterial Mycobacterium spp. infection was found in broodstock and tadpoles after using four sanitation measures in frog farms. The results of this experiment show that the use of four sanitation measures can prevent and solve the problem of the spread of bacterial Mycobacterium spp. infections in commercial frog breeding farms.