Amoxicillin Effective in Healing Coral Disease Lesions (VIDEO)
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FAU scientific divers Erin Shilling and Ryan Eckert are shown applying the antibiotic treatment (the white paste) into trenches created around disease lesions present at the edges of the coral colony. The trenches are the white inner margin on the coral tissue (the white is just exposed coral skeleton), while the lesions are the pale/white tissue at the edge of the coral colony. Shilling and Eckert then apply the same treatment to a smaller coral in the same manner. Later, they again treat a coral, however, it is with chlorinated epoxy (brown paste) being packed into both the trench created on the colony as well as over the lesions themselves.
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Joshua Voss, Ph.D., FAU Harbor Branch, Coral Reef and Health Ecology Lab
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Credit: Joshua Voss, Ph.D., FAU Harbor Branch, Coral Reef and Health Ecology Lab
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