[Coral-List] SCTLD cause

[Melbourne Briscoe]

"  There are more than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts published so far and
numerous white papers and government reports that are also available."

Perhaps it is time for someone to prepare a meta-analysis/review; what do
all those papers and reports say, and are there any conclusions?

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:37 AM William Precht via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Once again, I strongly encourage those interested in SCTLD to read the vast
> peer-reviewed literature published to date on this topic.  There are more
> than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts published so far and numerous white
> papers and government reports that are also available.
>
> The journal Frontiers in Marine Science has already published 34
> manuscripts on this topic alone and there are more in the queue currently
> undergoing review.
>
> Each day we learn more and more about this horrific disease but there is
> much we still do not understand. Every piece of the puzzle we put together
> - the closer we get to solving the mystery.  We therefore, strongly
> encourage anyone doing research on this topic or monitoring reefs impacted
> by SCTLD to submit your manuscript to FMS.
>
>
> https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16501/stony-coral-tissue-loss-disease-in-the-caribbean
>
> If you have any questions you can contact either myself or my co-editors.
> Thanks!
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 7:39 AM Paul Muir via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > Wow, so no Koch's postulates for this disease (ie ability to produce
> > disease symptoms in susceptible individuals following a small
> > inoculation with a purified disease agent? This is a pretty basic
> > requirement in pathology and pointless speculating on causes without
> this?
> > Ideally the disease agent is isolated and cultured to make the inoculum,
> > although this is occasionally not possible if the pathogen is tricky to
> > culture or loses its pathogenicity during culture. Even producing
> symptoms
> > using a 0.22um filtered crude tissue extract would be informative (ie
> viral
> > vs bacterial agent). Curious why this hasn't been done?
> > Ex marine microbiologist/pathologist talking- although very ex!
> >
> > PAUL
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 08:28, Kaufman, Leslie S via Coral-List <
> > coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > Remember folks- it is at least plausible that SCTLD is not a single
> > > pathogen (though several may be involved as triggers), but rather a
> > > dysbiosis, or microbiome dysfunction.  Essentially, a cnidarian UTI.
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