The need for autogenous vaccines in Aquaculture

Title : The need for autogenous vaccines in Aquaculture

Abstract:

Given the growth of aquaculture, the risk of AMR during fish farm production is becoming increasingly important from the ‘One Health’ perspective. However, only a limited number of commercially licensed vaccines are available, mainly for the salmon industry, posing not only a threat to lower-valued fish farmed species, but also to human health, as antibiotic treatments are needed to combat new emerging bacterial pathologies. Together with other prophylactic measures, autogenous vaccines represent a flexible and cost-effective solution against bacterial pathologies in terms of fish and human welfare.

Biography:

Rosa Merino is a biologist with more than 13 years’ experience in the aquaculture sector. For a period of 7 years she ran a small lab near Glasgow, Scotland, specialising in salmon readiness analyses for sea water transfer and salmonid pathogen identification, always with one foot in the lab and another in the field. In 2017 she joined HIPRA, a top pharmaceutical company, as part of its Aquaculture Unit. As Global Technical Manager she has gained a broad perspective and field experience, visiting farms around the world, understanding and dealing with the idiosyncrasies of several farmed fish species.