Phage therapy of the white plague-like disease of Favia favus in the Red Sea

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 665-670

  Atad, I ^a   Zvuloni, A ^b   Loya, Y ^a   Rosenberg, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coral disease; Favia; Phage therapy; Thalassomonas; White plague like disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CORAL REEF; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POPULATION DECLINE;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; FAVIA; FAVIA FAVUS; THALASSOMONAS; THALASSOMONAS LOYANA;

EID: 84865626682     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-012-0900-5     Document Type: Article

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