“…But none of these articles have reviewed the emerging aptamers technology in the disease diagnosis of aquatic animal and its potential prophylactic and therapeutic properties. The application of aptamers technology has been studied extensively in the past decades, notably in the diagnosis and therapeutics of human infectious diseases (Singh, Manohar, Adegoke, Stenström, & Shanker, ; Ulrich, Cheffer, & Zimbres, ), as well as cancer (Duan, Wang, Shigdar, & Tran, ; Hori, Herrera, Rossi, & Zhou, ; Mayer, Schöler, & Heidarian, ). To date, the application of aptamers technology in infectious disease diagnosis of aquatic animal is mostly limited to viral infections.…”