Autogenous Vaccines

Are your fish falling ill year after year? Do you go through rounds and rounds of antibiotic-medicated feed treatments every production cycle?
Let’s break that pattern.

BETTER PREVENT THE PREVENTABLE WITH A CUSTOM-MADE VACCINE

Vaccinating your fish is a critical part of your fish healthcare plan and part of any successful hatchery, fish farm, or aquarium. When enacting a vaccination strategy, it can be hard to cover all the disease-causing bugs your fish may encounter with only commercial vaccines – this is where custom vaccines can enable you to broaden protection for your fish.

A custom vaccine, also known as an autogenous vaccine, is a useful tool that veterinarians, producers and hatchery managers can use to address many strains of viral and bacterial pathogens affecting their fish when commercial vaccines just aren’t getting the job done or are simply unavailable.

Custom vaccines are killed (inactivated) viral or bacterial vaccines that contain facility-specific antigens isolated and identified through diagnostics. Like most commercial vaccines, autogenous vaccines may also include an adjuvant to improve the fish immune response. Custom vaccines may be used as part of an annual vaccination strategy to help reduce the load of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in a facility.

The USDA approves the use for custom (autogenous) vaccines to protect animals against disease-causing organisms, by or under the direction of a veterinarian, when:

A fully licensed commercial vaccine is not available
The organism exhibits a high degree of genetic variation and requires improved antigen specificity
When commercially licensed products have failed to provide adequate protection

We cover all fish species and disease, here are a selection of species and common diseases for vaccination:

Fish Type	Aeromonas salmonicida	Aeromonas veronii	Columnaris-causing bacteria	Edwardsiella ictaluri	Edwardsiella piscicida	Erysiopelothrix	Lactococcus garvieae, L. petauri	Moritella viscosa	Streptococcus iniae	Vibrio anguillarum, V. ordalii	Vibrio harveyi	Yersinia ruckeri
Amberjack
Barramundi
Catfish
Koi
Ornamental & Aquarium Fish
Salmon
Tilapia
Trout
Zebrafish
OTHER*	Please contact us

AquaTactics has been producing vet-exempt vaccines for our customers for 20+ years and our entire team strives day-in and day-out to provide you with unparalleled customer service from start to finish. We are now able to offer custom vaccines to all customers and veterinarians throughout the United States through production at Bimeda Biological’s vaccine manufacturing site and aquatic wet lab in San Angelo, Texas.

We cover all fish species and diseases,
talk to us today.