Bioatividade in vitro de extratos etanólicos de sementes de Moringa oleifera frente a estirpes de Vibrio portadoras de fatores de virulência e resistentes a antimicrobianos, isoladas da hemolinfa do camarão Litopenaeus vannamei

Abstract

The search for antibacterial agents may provide alternative therapy for outbreaks of bacterial etiology that represents a risk to the development of aquaculture activities. Thus, the research aimed to evaluate the in vitro bioactivity of the Moringa oleifera seeds extracts against isolated vibrios from the Litopenaeus vannamei hemolymph. The profiles related to antibiotic resistance and exoenzyme expression associated to virulence factors were determined as criteria for antibacterial activity assays. One hundred strains of Vibrio were isolated and phenotypically identified, with the predominance of V. navarrensis (53%), V. brasiliensis (15%) and V. parahaemolyticus (10%). The expression of at least one exoenzyme was detected in all isolates (n = 100). It was found a percentage of phospholipase and lipase positive strains of 94 and 58%, respectively. Thirty-eight strains produced β-hemolysis on sheep blood. The ability to hydrolyze casein, gelatin and elastin was observed in 96%, 80% and 35% of vibrios, respectively. It was observed a high antibiotic resistance index (75%), with following phenotypic profiles: monoresistance (n = 42), cross-resistance to β-lactams (n = 20) and multiple resistance (n = 13). The antibacterial activity tests indicated bioactivity from the MOS-E and MOS-ES against 92% and 90% of strains tested, respectively. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of MOS and MOS-E-ES able to inhibit the growth of most strains was of 32 µg mL-1. The screening of bioactive compounds revealed that only a fraction of ethyl acetate from both extracts demonstrated antibacterial effect, which made possible the isolation of the vibriocidal substances niazirine and niazimicine.