“…The OMPs can induce specific bactericidal antibodies [8][9][10], inhibit the bacterial colonization in hosts [11], and induce cell-mediated immunity [12][13][14]. Many OMPs from different pathogenic bacteria, such as Aeromonas salmonicida [8, [15][16][17], Aeromonas hydrophila [9,[18][19][20][21], Vibrio parahaemolyticus [22], Vibrio alginolyticus [23], Vibrio harveyi [12 -13], Edwardsiella ictaluri [10], and Edwardsiella tarda [14,24], have been identified as effective protective antigens. Some OMPs mixtures extracted from one pathogenic bacterial strain have been proved to provide cross protection for fish against several other bacterial strains or species [15,20], suggesting that different pathogenic bacterial species may share some similar or conserved OMP antigens.…”