Publications by authors named "H M Munang'andu"

The increasing trend of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pathogens in aquaculture makes it is imperative to find control measures for AMR pathogens causing high economic losses in aquaculture. In the present study, a multidrug resistance (MDR) Aeromonas hydrophila bacterium was isolated from kidney samples of diseased carp originating from a fish farm in Awankot, Rupnagar, Punjab, India. Moribund-infected fish exhibited large irregular hemorrhages on the external body surfaces, exophthalmia and fin-rot-like lesions.

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Article Synopsis
  • Aeromonas hydrophila is a harmful pathogen in aquaculture, causing economic losses, but recent advancements in nanotechnology could help create effective vaccines.
  • This study examined a vaccine using nanoparticle-loaded outer membrane protein A (OmpA) from A. hydrophila, showing good size and encapsulation efficiency with promising results in zebrafish models.
  • The oral administration of the nanoparticle vaccine led to a 77.7% survival rate in infected zebrafish, suggesting it stimulates a strong immune response and offers significant protection against the pathogen.
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The mitochondrial anti-viral signaling (MAVS) protein is an intermediary adaptor protein of retinoic acid-inducible gene-1 (RIG-I) like receptor (RLR) signaling, which activates the transcription factor interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) and NF-kB to produce type I IFNs. MAVS expression has been reported in different fish species, but few studies have shown its functional role in anti-viral responses to fish viruses. In this study, we used the transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) as a gene editing tool to disrupt the function of MAVS in Chinook salmon () embryonic cells (CHSE) to understand its role in induction of interferon I responses to infections with the (+) RNA virus salmonid alphavirus subtype 3 (SAV-3), and the dsRNA virus infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) infection.

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