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Marine shrimp farming, mainly Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei, is an important component of the aquaculture industry. Marine shrimp farming help in producing protein source for human, providing job opportunity, and generating lucrative profit for investor. Intensification farming practices will lead to poor water quality, stress, and lacking nutrition among the farmed marine shrimp, with consequences of disease outbreaks and poor production, impeding the development of marine shrimp farming. Antibiotic is the common short-term solution to overcome disease problems in marine shrimp farming. Moreover, the negative impacts of using antibiotics on public health and the environment cannot gain consumer confidence in aquaculture products. Recently, the research on using phytobiotic as a prophylactic agent in aquaculture has been a hot topic. Various phytobiotics have been explored to reveal their …