China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (4): 1763-1775.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2025.04.028

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Phage Therapy in Mycoplasma Disease Management:Advances in Prevention and Treatment Strategies for Livestock and Poultry

ZHU Bin1, ZHOU Xingyou1, WUJunquan1, CHEN Huiying1, ZHUJianfeng2, QIJiaojiao2, HU Wenfeng1,2, YANG Meiyan1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety of Guangdong Province, Collegeof Food Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;
    2. Bioforte Biotechnology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518118, China
  • Received:2024-06-18 Published:2025-03-29

Abstract: Mycoplasmas,prevalent animal pathogens,inflict substantial economic damage on the livestock and poultry sectors.Clinical strategies to combat Mycoplasma diseases encompass prophylactic vaccination and antibiotic therapy.Yet,conventional vaccines-both inactivated and attenuated-pose challenges such as diminished immunogenicity and virulence reversion,while prolonged monotherapy with antibiotics fosters antibiotic resistance.Bacteriophages offer a promising alternative,circumventing these issues and emerging as an effective biological control in veterinary and aquaculture settings.Mycoplasma bacteriophages were discovered and studied as early as the 1980s,and it is expected to achieve the goal of preventing and treating Mycoplasma diseases through the application of bacteriophages.However,the complex cultivation of Mycoplasmas has limited extensive bacteriophage research.Further isolation and in-depth study of Mycoplasma bacteriophages are imperative for advancing practical applications.The author conducted a systematic phylogenetic analysis of the whole genome of Mycoplasma in NCBI database,listed common pathogenic Mycoplasmas in livestock and poultry and the symptoms they caused,elucidated the pathogenesis and conventional treatment methods of Mycoplasma,summarized the research progress of bacteriophages and the practicality of Mycoplasma bacteriophages,and provided important references for the prevention and treatment of Mycoplasma diseases in animal husbandry field.

Key words: Mycoplasmadisease in livestock and poultry; phage therapy; pathogenic mechanism; prevention and treatment; Mycoplasma phage

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