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Review
. 2022;30(4):1971-2000.
doi: 10.1007/s10499-022-00884-w. Epub 2022 May 2.

A review on the recent advances and application of vaccines against fish pathogens in aquaculture

Haimanti Mondal  1 , John Thomas  1
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Review

A review on the recent advances and application of vaccines against fish pathogens in aquaculture

Haimanti Mondal et al. Aquac Int. 2022.

Abstract

Globally, aquaculture has faced serious economic problems due to bacterial, viral, and various other infectious diseases of different origins. Even though such diseases are being detected and simultaneously treated with several therapeutic and prophylactic methods, the broad-spectrum activity of vaccines plays a vital role as a preventive measure in aquaculture. However, treatments like use of antibiotics and probiotics seem to be less effective when new mutant strains develop and disease causing pathogens become resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Therefore, vaccines developed by using recent advanced molecular techniques can be considered as an effective way of treating disease causing pathogens in aquatic organisms. The present review emphasizes on the current advances in technology and future outlook with reference to different types of vaccines used in the aquaculture industries. Beginning with traditional killed/inactivated and live attenuated vaccines, this work culminates in the review of modern new generation ones including recombinant, synthetic peptides, mucosal and DNA, subunit, nanoparticle-based and plant-based edible vaccines, reverse vaccinology, and monovalent and polyvalent vaccines.

Keywords: Aquaculture; Bacteria; Reverse vaccinology; Vaccination; Virus.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interestThe authors declare no competing interests.

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