Salmon gut microbiota correlates with disease infection status: potential for monitoring health in farmed animals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infectious diseases cause significant production losses in aquaculture every year. Since the gut microbiota plays an essential role in regulating the host immune system, health and physiology, altered gut microbiota compositions are often associated with a diseased status. However, few studies have examined the association between disease severity and degree of gut dysbiosis, especially when the gut is not the site of the primary infection. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge on whether bath treatment with formalin, a disinfectant commonly used in aquaculture to treat external infections, might affect the gut microbiome as a consequence of formalin ingestion. Here we investigate, through 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding, changes in the distal gut microbiota composition of

SUBMITTER: Bozzi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056536 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature