Animal Husbandry and Feed Science ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 123-128.doi: 10.12160/j.issn.1672-5190.2023.06.016

• Animal Disease Prevention and Control • Previous Articles    

Research Progress in the Application of Bacteriophages in Livestock and Poultry Industry

REN Shihang, DUAN Huihui, DU Xiangdang, SHANG Yanhong   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine,Henan Agricultural University,Zhengzhou 450002,China
  • Received:2023-07-27 Online:2023-11-30 Published:2024-01-11

Abstract: The long-term and widespread use of antibiotics in the animal husbandry industry has led to serious problems such as drug residues and antibiotic resistance, which seriously threatens the health of animals and even humans. Bacteriophages are viruses that can invade and lyse bacteria, with the advantages of strong specificity, wide presence, and low research and development cost. With the continuous development of science and technology, the research of bacteriophages in the livestock and poultry industry has been deepened, and the use of bacteriophages is progressively gaining recognition as an alternative strategy to antibiotics. Starting from the biological characteristics of bacteriophages, this article elaborates on the research of bacteriophages therapy for bacterial infections in livestock and poultry as well as the development and application of bacteriophages in livestock and poultry breeding, food biological control, etc., in hoping to provide references for the application of bacteriophages in livestock and poultry production.

Key words: bacteriophages, antibiotics, multi-drug resistance, bacteriophages therapy, livestock and poultry production

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