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REVIEW article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Fisheries, Aquaculture and Living Resources
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1397708

Microbes and pathogens associated with shrimps -implications and review of possible control strategies

Provisionally accepted
Subha Bhassu Subha Bhassu 1,2*Mariyam Shama Mariyam Shama 3Suma Tiruvayipati Suma Tiruvayipati 4Tze Chiew Christie Soo Tze Chiew Christie Soo 1Niyaz Ahmed Niyaz Ahmed 5Khatijah Yusoff Khatijah Yusoff 6
  • 1 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Taylor's University, Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
  • 4 Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore
  • 5 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • 6 Malaysia Genome Institute, Kuala Selangor, Malaysia

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    Shrimp aquaculture has been growing rapidly over the last three decades. However, high-density aquaculture together with environmental degradation has led to increased incidence of shrimp infections. Thus, devising and implementing effective strategies to predict, diagnose and control the spread of infections of shrimps are crucial, also to ensure biosecurity and sustainability of the food industry. With the recent advancements in biotechnology, more attention has been given to develop novel promising therapeutic tools with potential to prevent disease occurrence and better manage shrimp health. Furthermore, owing to the advent of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, it has become possible to analyze the genetic basis of susceptibility or resistance of different stocks of shrimps to infections and how sustainable aquaculture could be made free of shrimp diseases.

    Keywords: shrimp, pathogens, Diseases, Aquaculture, biosecurity

    Received: 26 Mar 2024; Accepted: 23 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bhassu, Shama, Tiruvayipati, Soo, Ahmed and Yusoff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Subha Bhassu, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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