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. 2018 Aug 10;9:1818. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01818

Table 6.

Treatments for pathogenic LAB in aquaculture.

LAB species/treatments Type of treatments Studied species References
Streptococcus agalactiae
Vaccine Feed-based recombinant Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) Nur-Nazifah et al., 2014
Oral DNA Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Huang L. Y. et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2017; Zhu et al., 2017
FbsA and α-enolase Nile tilapia Yi et al., 2014
SAΔphoB live attenuated vaccine Golden pompano (Trachinotus ovatus) Cai et al., 2017
PLGA-LrrG protein microparticle Nile tilapia Ke et al., 2017
GapA protein Nile tilapia Zhang Z. et al., 2017
Medical herbs Sophora flavescens root extract Nile tilapia Wu et al., 2013
Liposome-encapsulated cinnamaldehyde Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Faikoh et al., 2014
Essential oils Nile tilapia Brum et al., 2017
Excoecaria agallocha leaf extracts Nile tilapia Laith et al., 2017
Probiotics B. subtilis Tilapia Ng et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2017
B. pumilus Nile tilapia Srisapoome and Areechon, 2017
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nile tilapia Pinpimai et al., 2015
Lb. rhamnosus Nile tilapia Pirarat et al., 2015
Prebiotics β-glucan Nile tilapia Pilarski et al., 2017
Cordyceps militaris spent mushroom substrate Nile tilapia Van Doan et al., 2017a,b
Probiotics + Prebiotics Kefir + low molecular weight sodium alginate Nile tilapia Van Doan et al., 2017b
Cordyceps militaris spent mushroom substrate + Lb. plantarum Nile tilapia Van Doan et al., 2017a
Streptococcus iniae
Vaccine Formalin-killed cells Live
S. iniae mutant strain
Lb. lactis BFE920-SiMA feed vaccine
DNA vaccines (pEno)
Nile tilapia
Nile tilapia
Olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
Nile tilapia
Klesius et al., 2000
Wang et al., 2014
Kim et al., 2016
Kayansamruaj et al., 2017
Medical herbs Inositol
Essential oils
Aloe vera
Spirulina platensis
Peres et al., 2004
Soltani et al., 2014
Gabriel et al., 2015
Adel et al., 2016
Probiotics and prebiotics Grobiotic™AE
B. subtilis and Lb. acidophilus
Hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis)
Nile tilapia
Li and Gatlin, 2004
Aly et al., 2008
L. lactis Olive flounder Kim et al., 2013
B. subtilis, S. cerevisiae and Aspergillus oryzae Nile tilapia Iwashita et al., 2015
E. casseliflavus Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Safari et al., 2016
Nucleotides Oligonucleotides Hybrid striped bass Li et al., 2004
Nucleotides Rainbow trout Tahmasebi-Kohyani et al., 2011
Vitamins Vitamin E Nile tilapia Lim et al., 2009
Vitamin A Nile tilapia Guimarães et al., 2014
S. dysgalactiae
S. parauberis
S. uberis
Not available Not available Not available
Enterococcus faecalis
Medical plants Tamarindus indica and Emblica officinalis leaves, Allium sativum bulb, and Syzygium aromaticum bud extracts Nile tilapia, freshwater catfish (Clarias batrachus) and Asian stinging catfish (Heteropneustes fossilis) Rahman et al., 2017
Lactococcus garvieae
Vaccine Autogenous formalin-inactivated
Inactivated vaccine Ichtiovac-Lg
Bivalent vaccine
Subunit vaccines
Tilapia and rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout and
Olive flounder
Bercovier et al., 1997
Vendrell et al., 2007
Bastardo et al., 2012
Ra et al., 2009
Medical herbs Essential oils
Mushroom extracts
Stinging nettle
Extract of noni leaves
Huanglian Jiedu decoction
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
Freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)
Gray mullet (Mugil cephalus)
Soltani et al., 2015
Baba et al., 2015
Saeidi Asl et al., 2017
Marisa Halim et al., 2017
Choi et al., 2014
Antibiotics Lincomycin, tetracycline chloramphenicol Erythromycin, lincomycin, and oxytetracycline Erythromycin, oxytetracycline, and amoxicillin Yellow tail (Seriola quinqueradiata) Yellow tail Aoki et al., 1990 Kawanishi et al., 2005 Vendrell et al., 2006
Carnobacterium sp. Not available Not available Not available