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Defense mechanisms and disease prevention in farmed marine invertebrates

1999-03-01

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In addition to xenobiotic assaults, cultured bivalve mollusks (mussels and oysters) and crustacean arthropods (Penaeid shrimps) are continuously confronted with infectious microorganisms. The deadly effect of infections are most probably underestimated as the diseased animals rapidly vanish in nature, and only in aquacultural farms are mortalities reported as causing economical breakdowns. To fight severe epizooti...

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f55dd110-85d7-5040-b236-f54195c69a03
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10.1016/s0044-8486(98)00439-6
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