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Bacteriophage therapy of infectious diseases in aquaculture
Toshihiro Nakai1, Se Chang Park
1Laboratory of Fish Pathology, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan. nakaitt@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Research in Microbiology
|March 8, 2002
Abstract:
Bacteriophages may be candidates as therapeutic agents in bacterial infections. Here we describe the protective effects of phages against experimentally induced bacterial infections of cultured fish and discuss the potential for phage therapy in aquaculture.