Vaccines for Aquaculture
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 66165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immunology; diseases; vaccines; genomic; transcriptomic; aquaculture
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Interests: immunology; diseases; vaccines; genomic; transcriptomic; aquaculture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fish farming has experienced an exponential growth during the last decades. That fast development of fish aquaculture caused a parallel increase in pathological conditions affecting fish. Several pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi affect the health status of farmed fish, causing important economic losses. Different strategies have been developed to try to counteract fish diseases, including the application of chemical therapeutics, antibiotics, immunostimulants, functional feeds and vaccines. Vaccination plays an important role in large-scale commercial fish farming and represents an efficient preventive pathogen-specific strategy. Although several commercial vaccines are currently available for serious fish diseases, some of them remain without an efficient vaccination strategy. Moreover, the appearance of emerging diseases and the introduction of new species of fish for intensive culture, increases the urgency to develop new vaccines.
Due to the increasing needs in the fish vaccinology field, this special issue welcomes papers proposing the development of new vaccines and vaccination protocols for aquaculture, but also articles covering the effects of vaccines on the different aspects of the immune response (at a transcriptome, epigenome and/or cellular and humoral level).
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Novoa
Dr. Patricia Pereiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Vaccines
- Aquaculture
- Fish
- Transcriptome
- Epigenomics
- Immunology
- Cellular response
- Humoral response
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