The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases

__The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases__ is a unique contribution to an entirely new field of scientific investigation. For the first time, material presented in this book identifies patterns and trends in the abundance and distribution of disease phenomena in the marine environment. These patterns have gone unrecognised and undetected in the past because the literature in this field is so widely scattered. The book is both interdisciplinary and synthetic. Studies in this book unequivocally link marine diseases to global climate change. The book changes our perspective on the major controls over the population dynamics of marine organisms. Papers in this volume clearly identify the intimate connection between public health and environmental health for marine-borne diseases such as cholera and human enteroviruses. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Patterns of spread of coral disease in the Florida Keys....Pages 1-24 White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs....Pages 25-38 Quantitative assessment of coral diseases in the Florida Keys: strategy and methodology....Pages 39-52 Yellow band and dark spot syndromes in Caribbean corals: distribution, rate of spread, cytology, and effects on abundance and division rate of zooxanthellae....Pages 53-63 Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs....Pages 65-69 Integrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques in the study of coral disease pathogenesis....Pages 71-89 Laboratory models for the study of coral pathologies....Pages 91-95 Coral bleaching and disease: contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea)....Pages 97-104 Characterization of Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea fan corals....Pages 105-111 Disease in Zoanthids: dynamics in space and time....Pages 113-130 Microbial disease causation in marine invertebrates: problems, practices, and future prospects....Pages 131-139 Marine ecosystems and cholera....Pages 141-145 Seasonal and interannual cycles of endemic cholera in Bengal 1891–1940 in relation to climate and geography....Pages 147-156 Vibrio cholerae in recreational beach waters and tributaries of Southern California....Pages 157-164 Occurrence and distribution of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus in a subtropical Gulf of Mexico estuary....Pages 165-173 Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels....Pages 175-184 Demographic, landscape, and meteorological factors controlling the microbial pollution of coastal waters....Pages 185-193 Modeling studies of the effect of climate variability on MSX disease in eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ) populations....Pages 195-212 How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?....Pages 213-220 Mycoses in red snapper ( Lutjanus campechanus ) caused by two deuteromycete fungi (Penicillium corylophilum and Cladosporium sphaerospermum )....Pages 221-228