White pox disease on a frond of the endangered elkhorn coral on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys. The bacteria are overlying the coral tissue, exposing the coral's white limestone skeleton ...

Image Caption: White pox disease on a frond of the endangered elkhorn coral on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys. White pox disease comes from humans, but when it infects coral, as in this case from ...

In 2003, Sutherland found a clue. During an outbreak of white pox disease, she identified a unique strain of S.marcescens, known as PDR60, in both local elkhorns and untreated human sewage.Now ...

A research team has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean ...

The contagious disease kills coral tissue, exposing patches of its white skeleton beneath. The researchers originally suspected that the S. marcescens infecting elkhorn coral came from human feces, ...

A disease that is devastating Caribbean coral reefs is caused by a bacterium commonly found in the human gut, US researchers have discovered. White pox, one of the fastest spreading coral diseases ...

When White Pox disease infects coral, as in this case from the Upper Keys in Florida, it causes white blotches by killing the overlying coral tissue and revealing the coral’s white limestone ...