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Since 1990 considerable research effort has been concentrated on immuno-stimulants for fish. Immuno-stimulants are compounds which enhance the resistance of the treated animal to infections in general. They are effective against both overt and sub-clinical disease. As medicinal agents for the control of overt disease they have important safety advantages in that they have none of the negative effects which antibacterial drugs and live vaccines have on the environment; and being natural compounds they produce no undesirable residues.
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Treves-Brown, K.M. (2000). Immuno-Stimulants. In: Applied Fish Pharmacology. Aquaculture, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0761-9_19
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