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Advances in Management Methods for Argulosis in Aquaculture

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Argulus are crustacean macro-ectoparasites that create one of the major threats to the aquaculture due to lack of suitable therapy. Argulosis causes a potentially rapid escalation of infection, causing substantial economic loss to the aquaculture industry worldwide. The use of chemotherapeutics/drugs/chemicals is a routine activity to combat argulosis in aquaculture; however, it has numerous unavoidable drawbacks; therefore, treatment would hardly be feasible with the existing methods. The most recent advancement in the control of fish lice, Argulus, is the applications of phytotherapy (plant crude extracts and bioactive compounds), vaccinating fish, epidemiological approaches, immunological interventions, vital gene-targeted drug development, etc. Regardless of several managerial attempts to destroy the parasite Argulus, it is seldom possible with present knowledge and warrants effective alternative eco-friendly and economically feasible methods to treat Argulus infection. In recent years the application of nanoparticles has resulted in a remarkable success to control the fish parasites like ich, monogeneans, Lernaea, etc. very efficiently at a considerably low dose; thus, interventions of nanoparticles as a potent argulocidal drug in aquaculture may be possible in the future. The present article highlights the advancement in management methods to combat argulosis in aquaculture system.

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Kumar, S., Kumari, P. (2021). Advances in Management Methods for Argulosis in Aquaculture. In: Gupta, S.K., Giri, S.S. (eds) Biotechnological Advances in Aquaculture Health Management . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5195-3_19

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