Allan Heres

Bacteriophages can be used to tackle AMR by reducing the unnecessary use of antibiotics in all animal industries. They are sustainable, highly efficient and stable feed additives.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an increasingly important threat to public health. The excessive use of antibiotics has caused pathogens to mutate and become more resilient to drugs, rendering them ineffective. ...

Physiological stress is one of the main contributing factors of disease outbreaks and reduced performances in the production of tilapia. Compared to the production of land animals, there are only a limited number of practical and cost effective disease treatment methods for aquaculture.Therefore, good stress management practices are an integral part of preventing disease outbreaks early on, while ...

Introduction Global aquaculture production has been steadily increasing over the last decade. Asian countries like Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and India have emerged as global leaders in shrimp production. In order to bridge the gap between world demand and supply of shrimp, many countries have undertaken intensive shrimp culture.Disease  ...