By: Puvaneswari Puvanasundram, Chou Min Chong, Suriana Sabri, Md. Sabri Yusoff, Murni Karim

Author: Farah Izana Abdullah

Probiotics application as one of the beneficial feed additives in aquaculture has demonstrated a significant impact on disease resistance, growth, immune response as well as other positive effects on the cultured host. The indispensable usage of chemotherapeutics and antibiotics with a wide spectrum led to the emergence of antibiotic resistance bacteria. Therefore, probiotics which are known to be a supplementary strategy could be as there is a higher demand for environmentally-friendly tools to address disease outbreaks. Multi-strain probiotics provide more benefits to aquatic organisms as it provides synergistic effect in contrast to the use of a single-strain probiotic. One of the main benefits of multi-strain probiotics is inhibition of various marine and freshwater pathogens by increasing survival rate of host. The concept of multi-strain probiotics is also largely used in aquaculture to enhance non-specific immunity of host in terms of innate and adaptive immune response. The improvement in growth parameter including increased weight gain, specific growth rate, and protein efficiency ratio were also commonly observed in multi-strain probiotics fed host. The applications of multi-strain probiotics range through many aspects such as growth promotion, inhibition of pathogen, improved immune response, and many other benefits. The potential of individual probiotic organisms to act in synergy or additively when in a mixture, holds a grand promise for future use in treating various diseases in aquaculture.

Web: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2021.100905

Date of Input: 29/06/2022 | Updated: 29/06/2022 | m_fakhrulddin