Uso de microorganismos para el control de enfermedades en el cultivo de camarón blanco <i>litopenaeus vannamei</i>

Abstract

Shrimp activity in the country plays an important role as it presents a high demand in the market and generates great economic income. However, within the shrimp culture it is affected by different outbreaks of pathological microorganisms caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and others, which affect the growth and survival of the organism, and in many occasions causing high mortalities in the crops, causing Thus, large economic losses, which is why producers apply different control alternatives for the solution to these pathologies. Due to these problems in crops, we have opted for the use of methods of animal origin such as microorganisms which are friendly to the environment and the host, in order to substitute the use of antibiotics that due to their poor administration to combat diseases cause irreversible damage to the environment and pathogens create resistance to antibiotics. In the present work through bibliographic sources the use of microorganisms such as probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids and yeasts that are used for the control of diseases in the cultivation of white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei, whether administered in water as in the organism in order to improve production.