Citrus Essential Oils a Good Alternatives to Antibiotics in Aquaculture - Animal Husbandry & Dairy Science

Aquaculture is the farming of  aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants [1]. Aquaculture is a booming sector because of the always increasing demand which is partly opposed by the insurgency of infectious diseases affecting the farm animals and that are a major risk and responsible for substantial economic losses in this sector [2-5]. The unprejudiced use of antibiotics to prevent or to treat the bacterial diseases can lead to the development bacterial resistant strains that could be threat to human health [6-8]. Several measures have been taken on national and international scales to reduce or even halt the use of antibiotics in aquaculture. In this context research is being carried out on new natural products that have an antibiotic capacity such as natural essential oils [8,9] Essential oils (EOs) are aromatic oily liquids characterized by a strong odour and produced by fruits or plants.

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