Scientists have discovered a new tool to add to their arsenal in treating and preventing a disease that has wreaked havoc on Florida’s coral reefs for years, according to new research.
found that a bacterial probiotic treatment effectively stopped or slowed SCTLD in nearly two thirds of tested infected coral fragments.What they're saying:
Microbiologist Blake Ushijima, who led the study when he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Marine Station, tells Axios that the probiotic could be used preventively to fortify healthy corals against an "unprecedented" disease. "Think of it like the COVID pandemic. We can develop treatments to treat people with COVID, but if we had no way of protecting the healthy population, then the control [of] this disease would be ... not very great," says Ushijima, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Composed of a beneficial bacterial strain that's found on diseased corals, the probiotic was tested in a lab setting on one species of coral, and researchers are actively starting field trials with it on diseased corals in the Florida Keys.Much about SCTLD remains unknown.
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