Microdroplet-based high-throughput screening for antagonistic bacteria targeting penaeid shrimp pathogenic Vibrio harveyi
Hajime Yuasa, Yuri Katayama, Kayo Konishi, Miho Furukawa, Reiko Nozaki, Hidehiro Kondo, Ikuo Hirono, Keiichiro Koiwai · 2026
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Description
Yuasa and seven colleagues screen for bacteria that fight a shrimp pathogen in twenty twenty-six. Shrimp farming is a huge global sector with few disease control options. Vaccines do not work well in shrimp, so antagonistic bacteria are attractive. Such bacteria suppress a target pathogen without antibiotics.
Their system traps single bacteria in tiny oil droplets for high throughput screening. The target was Vibrio harveyi, a pathogen of penaeid shrimp. From kuruma shrimp rearing water, they isolated eighteen candidate bacteria in three genera. Several were rare, low abundance members of the community. None blocked the pathogen on agar plates, a noted limit. One of four strains tested trended toward better shrimp survival in co infection tests. The authors weigh both promise and limits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hajime Yuasa, Yuri Katayama, Kayo Konishi, Miho Furukawa, Reiko Nozaki, Hidehiro Kondo, Ikuo Hirono, Keiichiro Koiwai |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |