Quantitative Detection of Active Vibrios Associated with White Plague Disease in Mussismilia braziliensis Corals.

ABSTRACT: Over recent decades several coral diseases have been reported as a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems causing the decline of corals cover and diversity around the world. The development of techniques that improve the ability to detect and quantify microbial agents involved in coral disease will aid in the elucidation of disease cause, facilitating coral disease detection and diagnosis, identification and pathogen monitoring, pathogen sources, vectors, and reservoirs. The genus Vibrio is known to harbor pathogenic strains to marine organisms. One of the best-characterized coral pathogens is Vibrio coralliilyticus, an aetilogic agent of White Plague Disease (WPD). We used Mussismilia coral tissue (healthy and diseased specimens) to develop a rapid reproducible d

SUBMITTER: Chimetto Tonon LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698304 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature