Characterisation of Lactococcal and Streptococcal proteins critical for fish pathogenesis

该项目与生物科学和生物技术部门保持一致，特别是通过改善粮食安全和生产，提高英国水产养殖业一系列商业重要鱼类的抗病能力，包括虹鳟鱼和大菱鲆。它还将影响一系列鱼类物种，这些鱼类是英国新兴产业，如罗非鱼，鲈鱼，鲶鱼和肺鱼，每一种都容易感染链球菌病。如果英国要提高粮食生产的自力更生能力，就必须研究更多样化鱼类的替代养殖，同时采取战略提高鳟鱼产业的现有能力，改善疾病控制将对鱼类健康、福利和整体生产力产生积极的影响。

This project aligns to the bioscience and biotechnology sectors specifically through improving food security and production and increasing the disease resistance of a range of commercially important fish species for UK aquaculture including rainbow trout and turbot. It will also impact on a range of fish species that are burgeoning UK industries such as tilapia, seabass, catfish, and barramundi, each of which is susceptible to Streptococcosis. If the UK is to increase self-reliance in food production, alternate farming of more diverse species of fish must be investigated alongside strategies to increase current capacity in the trout industry and improved disease control will have positive knock on effects for fish health, welfare and overall productivity.