Publications about Southeast Florida

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Evaluating the effectiveness of field-based probiotic treatments for stony coral tissue loss disease in southeast Florida, USA (Page 1)

Evaluating the effectiveness of field-based probiotic treatments for stony coral tissue loss disease in southeast Florida, USA

Pitts KA, Scheuermann M, Lefcheck JS, Ushijima B, Danek N, McDonald EM, Milanese AR, Schul MD, Meyer JL, Toth KA, Ferris Z, De La Flor YT, DeMarco T, Noren HKG, Walker BK and Paul VJ ·
2025

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has spread throughout Florida’s Coral Reef, causing extensive mortality of over 30 species of reef-building corals, and has rapidly spread to many other countries and territories throughout the Caribbean. Current treatments for SCTLD, including a proprietary paste mixed with the antibiotic amoxicillin, do not provide protection from future infections and may select for antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria.

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2020 Status Report Scoring Methodology for Atlantic Jurisdictions (Page 1)

2020 Status Report Scoring Methodology for Atlantic Jurisdictions

Donovan EC, Towle EK, Blondeau J, Eakin M, Edwards K, Edwards P, Enochs I, Fleming C, Formel N, Geiger E, Gorstein M, Grove J, Groves S, Johnson M, Kelsey RH, Manzello D, Miller N, and Viehman S ·
6 November 2020

The primary purpose of this document is to describe the scoring process used for all the Atlantic jurisdictions: Florida, the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), Puerto Rico, and the Flower Garden Banks.

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