BELGIAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NON-ANTIBIOTIC PRAWN BACTERIA FIGHTER
March 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIERESEARCHERS from Ghent University in Belgium have developed a non-antibiotic dietary supplement that protects farmed shrimp against bacterial infection - a finding that could help end antibiotic use in fish farming.The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Microbiolology said brine shrimp that were fed a compound called a polymer polyhydroxybutyrate - or PHB - were prevented from becoming infected with the bacteria vibrio campbellii an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that causes significant losses in the fish farming sector as an ...
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