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- Swarming motility is a movement technique used by pathogenic bacteria to enhance their ability to infect hosts, particularly in shrimp.
- An optimized assay was developed to measure this swarming motility by determining the best conditions (agar type, drying time, concentration, and culture volume) for observing bacterial movement on Petri dishes.
- The method facilitates data analysis for identifying potential anti-virulence substances by comparing the growth patterns of bacteria treated with various products.
Article Abstract
Swarming motility is a type of movement used by pathogenic flagellated bacteria as virulence factor to colonize surfaces and cause damage to the host. is a pathogenic flagellated bacterium that increases its virulence by switching from swimmer to swarming cells. The hosts of pathogenic include farmed shrimp. Therefore, methods to detect and quantify this movement are important to control shrimp diseases caused by pathogenic strains. We developed an optimized swarming motility assay by identifying the most optimal type of agar, and drying time of the culture medium, agar concentration and volume of the bacterial culture to achieve the fastest swarming motility during the migration of on Petri dishes during a 24-hour incubation period. The method includes data analysis that could be used as a tool to identify potential anti-virulence products by comparing the slopes of the linearized diameters of the swarming halos of bacteria treated with the products, as they migrate on Petri dishes over a 24-hour incubation period. Here we report:•A simple method for detection and quantification of swarming motility halos of bacteria.•A method that could be used as a tool to identify potential anti-virulence products.
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