The immunostimulatory role of bacterial heat stock proteins and their efficacy in protecting the white-leg shrimp, litopenaeus vannamei against vibrio-induced mortality

Abstract

Feeding bacteria encapsulated heat shock proteins (HSPs) represents a novel alternative to battle Vibriosis in aquaculture, an important disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio. The objectives of this study are to determine the effect of feeding bacterial HSPs, challenge against V. harveyi and also the mRNA encoding in L. vannamei larvae.