Use of Probiotic Bacteria and Bacteriocins as an Alternative to Antibiotics in Aquaculture

dc.creatorPereira, Wellison Amorim
dc.creatorMendonca, Carlos Miguel N.
dc.creatorVillasante Urquiza, Alejandro
dc.creatorMarteinsson, Viggo Por
dc.creatorGuy LeBlanc, Jean
dc.creatorCotter, Paul D.
dc.creatorFigueroa Villalobos, Elias
dc.creatorRomero, Jaime
dc.creatorOliveira, Ricardo P. S.
dc.date2022
dc.date2022-10-04T21:36:38Z
dc.date2022-10-04T21:36:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-18T14:53:17Z
dc.date.available2022-10-18T14:53:17Z
dc.identifierMICROORGANISMS,Vol.10,,2022
dc.identifierhttps://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/4764
dc.identifier10.3390/microorganisms10091705
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/4444389
dc.descriptionIn addition to their use in human medicine, antimicrobials are also used in food animals and aquaculture, and their use can be categorized as therapeutic against bacterial infections. The use of antimicrobials in aquaculture may involve a broad environmental application that affects a wide variety of bacteria, promoting the spread of bacterial resistance genes. Probiotics and bacteriocins, antimicrobial peptides produced by some types of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), have been successfully tested in aquatic animals as alternatives to control bacterial infections. Supplementation might have beneficial impacts on the intestinal microbiota, immune response, development, and/or weight gain, without the issues associated with antibiotic use. Thus, probiotics and bacteriocins represent feasible alternatives to antibiotics. Here, we provide an update with respect to the relevance of aquaculture in the animal protein production sector, as well as the present and future challenges generated by outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance, while highlighting the potential role of probiotics and bacteriocins to address these challenges. In addition, we conducted data analysis using a simple linear regression model to determine whether a linear relationship exists between probiotic dose added to feed and three variables of interest selected, including specific growth rate, feed conversion ratio, and lysozyme activity.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.sourceMICROORGANISMS
dc.subjectprobiotic
dc.subjectbacteriocin
dc.subjectantibiotic
dc.subjectaquaculture
dc.subjectbiotechnology
dc.titleUse of Probiotic Bacteria and Bacteriocins as an Alternative to Antibiotics in Aquaculture
dc.typeReview


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