2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02209.x
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Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea

Abstract: Mass mortality events of benthic invertebrates in the temperate north-western (NW) Mediterranean Sea have been observed in recent seasons. A 16 month in situ study in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea) demonstrated that the occurrence of Paramuricea clavata mortality episodes were concomitant to a condition of prolonged high sea surface temperatures, low chlorophyll concentrations and the presence of culturable Vibrio spp. in seawater. The occurrence of Vibrio spp. at the seasonal scale was correlated wit… Show more

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“…High summer temperatures correlate with increased V. cholerae outbreaks (Fernandez et al, 2009;Hashizume et al, 2011), as well as infections caused by V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus (Iwamoto et al, 2010). Increased SST undoubtedly causes an increase in abundance of vibrios (Vezzulli et al, 2010); however, temperature also has a more direct role in Vibrio pathogenicity (Oh et al, 2009), although little is known regarding specific mechanisms involved in temperature-related infections.…”
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“…High summer temperatures correlate with increased V. cholerae outbreaks (Fernandez et al, 2009;Hashizume et al, 2011), as well as infections caused by V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus (Iwamoto et al, 2010). Increased SST undoubtedly causes an increase in abundance of vibrios (Vezzulli et al, 2010); however, temperature also has a more direct role in Vibrio pathogenicity (Oh et al, 2009), although little is known regarding specific mechanisms involved in temperature-related infections.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although it is uncertain whether V. coralliilyticus is a primary or opportunistic coral pathogen, evidence strongly suggests that this endemic member of global coral holobionts (Pollock et al, 2010) has a role in coral disease (Rosenberg and Kushmaro, 2011). Infection experiments establish the ability of V. coralliilyticus to cause bacterial bleaching (Ben-Haim et al, 2003b), white syndrome (Sussman et al, 2008) and mortality in corals (Alves et al, 2010;Vezzulli et al, 2010), in addition to being associated with the microbial consortium of black band disease (Arotsker et al, 2009). V. coralliilyticus type strain ATCC (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA) BAA-450 (Vc450), isolated from bleached corals near Zanzibar, displays a tightly regulated temperature-dependent virulence; it is capable of invading and lysing coral tissue of Pocillopora damicornis at temperatures 427 1C, it attacks the symbiotic algae of this coral at temperatures between 24 1C and 26.5 1C and is avirulent at temperatures p24 1C (Ben-Haim et al, 2003b).…”
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