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Review
. 2023 Sep 25;39(11):317.
doi: 10.1007/s11274-023-03755-5.

Bacterial diseases in marine fish species: current trends and future prospects in disease management

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Review

Bacterial diseases in marine fish species: current trends and future prospects in disease management

Avani Hegde et al. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. .

Abstract

The fisheries sub-sector of aquaculture-i.e., the pisciculture industry, contributes significantly to a country's economy, employing a sizable proportion of the population. It also makes important contributions to household food security because the current demand for animal protein cannot be fulfilled by harvesting wild fish from riverines, lakes, dams, and oceans. For good pond management techniques and sustaining fish health, the fisherfolk, and the industry require well-established regulatory structures, efficient disease management strategies, and other extended services. In rearing marine fish, infections resulting from disease outbreaks are a weighty concern because they can cause considerable economic loss due to morbidity and mortality. Consequently, to find effective solutions for the prevention and control of the major diseases limiting fish production in aquaculture, multidisciplinary studies on the traits of potential fish pathogens, the biology of the fish as hosts, and an adequate understanding of the global environmental factors are fundamental. This review highlights the various bacterial diseases and their causative pathogens prevalent in the pisciculture industry and the current solutions while emphasising marine fish species. Given that preexisting methods are known to have several disadvantages, other sustainable alternatives like antimicrobial peptides, synthetic peptides, probiotics, and medicinal treatments have emerged to be an enormous potential solution to these challenges.

Keywords: Antibiotics; Antimicrobials; Bacterial fish pathogens; Disease; Economy; Probiotics; Vaccination.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that no potential conflict of interest that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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A bar graph indicating the overall increasing trend of world capture fisheries and aquaculture production spanning about seven decades between 1950 and 2018. (“The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture ,” 2020)
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A schematic representation of the mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides highlighting their direction action and methods of immune modulation. (Kumar et al. ; Singh et al. 2022)
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Probiotic, prebiotic, and synbiotic therapeutics’ mechanisms for conferring pathogen resistance and enhanced immunity in fish. (Talukder Shefat ; Wuertz et al. ; Dawood and Koshio ; Huynh et al. ; Nayak ; Wee et al. 2022)

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