tailieunhanh - Probiotics in aquaculture: importance and future perspectives

Abstract Aquaculture is one of the fastest developing growth sectors in the world and Asia presently contributes about 90% to the global production. However, disease outbreaks are constraint to aquaculture production thereby affects both economic development of the country and socio-economic status of the local people in many countries of Asia-Pacific region. | Indian J. Microbiol. REVIEW Probiotics in aquaculture importance and future perspectives Maloy Kumar Sahu . Swarnakumar K. Sivakumar T. Thangaradjou L. Kannan Received 08 September 2007 Final revision 24 December 2007 Accepted 11 January 2008 Abstract Aquaculture is one of the fastest developing growth sectors in the world and Asia presently contributes about 90 to the global production. However disease outbreaks are constraint to aquaculture production thereby affects both economic development of the country and socio-economic status of the local people in many countries of Asia-Pacific region. Disease control in aquaculture industry has been achieved by following different methods using traditional ways synthetic chemicals and antibiotics. However the use of such expensive chemotherapeu-tants for controlling diseases has been widely criticized for their negative impacts like accumulation of residues development of drug resistance immunosuppressants and reduced consumer preference for aqua products treated with antibiotics and traditional methods are ineffective against controlling new diseases in large aquaculture systems. Therefore alternative methods need to be developed to maintain a healthy microbial environment in the aquaculture systems there by to maintain the health of the cultured organisms. Use of probiotics is one of such method that is gaining importance in controlling potential pathogens. This review provides a summary of the criteria for the selection of the potential probiotics their importance and future perspectives in aquaculture industry. . Sahu 1 Ọ . Swarnakumar1 K. Sivakumar1 T. Thangaradjou1 L. Kannan2 1Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology Annamalai University Parangipettai - 608 502 Tamil Nadu India 2Thiruvalluvar University Fort Campus Vellore - 632 004 Tamil Nadu India e-mail maloyksahu@ Keywords Probiotics Aquaculture Finfish Shellfish. Introduction Aquaculture has become an important economic activity in many .