Aquaculture Health Management: Efficacy of Medicinal Herbs, Probiotics and Immunostimulators
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 5486
Special Issue Editors
2. Distinguished Professor in Aquatic Animal Health, Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran 79416-55665, Iran
Interests: immunopathogenesis of fish and shellfish infectious disease; probiotics in aquaculture; fish vaccinology; application of medicinal herbs in aquaculture; immunostimulators in aquaculture
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Dear Colleagues,
The diversity of new intensive and super-intensive systems in aquaculture production has imposed higher stocking densities, leading to stress induction and outbreaks of various infectious diseases. Many fish/shellfish farmers are routinely using chemotherapeutic agents, including antibiotics, to reduce the impact of infectious diseases, but application of chemical substances can give rise to numerous problems including bacterial resistance, environmental pollution, and chemical residues in the carcasses. Nowadays, the demand, globally, is to consume chemical-free aquaculture productions and, thus, use of dietary supplements or additives capable of improving fish health condition is a vital demand. Recent research works clearly show that application of medicinal herbs/plants has great potential and they can be considered as an alternative to the use of chemotherapeutic drugs in aquaculture due to their various benefits, including growth promotion, antioxidant activity, antimicrobial- and immune effects, and disease resistance. For this Special Issue, “Phytotherapy of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture”, we will collect scientific works from a broad range of research fields to better understand the current challenges, opportunities, and successes in this research field.
Suitable topics for contributions to the Special Issue include:
- Phytotherapy of Gram-negative bacterial diseases in aquaculture
- Phytotherapy of Gram-positive bacterial diseases in aquaculture
- Phytotherapy of viral diseases in aquaculture
- Phytotherapy of protozoan diseases in aquaculture
- Phytotherapy of metazoan parasitic diseases in aquaculture
- Efficacy of medicinal herbs on the immune status of fish
- Efficacy of medicinal herbs on the immune status of shellfish
Prof. Dr. Mehdi Soltani
Dr. Hien Van Doan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal herbs/plants
- infectious diseases
- aquaculture
- disease resistance
- herb essential oils
- herb extracts
- phytotherapy
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