Extensive coral disease outbreak at Fahl Island, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean

Coral Reefs ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Coles
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coral Disease ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Gulf Of Oman ◽  
Extensive Coral

scholarly journals Host size and proximity to diseased neighbours drive the spread of a coral disease outbreak in Hawai‘i

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1870) ◽  
pp. 20172265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie M. Caldwell ◽  
Megan J. Donahue ◽  
C. Drew Harvell
Keyword(s):  
Disease Risk ◽  
Coral Disease ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Host Size ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Wildlife Diseases ◽  
Infectious Individual ◽  
Force Of Infection ◽  
Affected Tissue

Understanding how disease risk varies over time and across heterogeneous populations is critical for managing disease outbreaks, but this information is rarely known for wildlife diseases. Here, we demonstrate that variation in host and pathogen factors drive the direction, duration and intensity of a coral disease outbreak. We collected longitudinal health data for 200 coral colonies, and found that disease risk increased with host size and severity of diseased neighbours, and disease spread was highest among individuals between 5 and 20 m apart. Disease risk increased by 2% with every 10 cm increase in host size. Healthy colonies with severely diseased neighbours (greater than 75% affected tissue) were 1.6 times more likely to develop disease signs compared with colonies with moderately diseased neighbours (25–75% affected tissue). Force of infection ranged from 7 to 20 disease cases per 1000 colonies (mean = 15 cases per 1000 colonies). The effective reproductive ratio, or average number of secondary infections per infectious individual, ranged from 0.16 to 1.22. Probability of transmission depended strongly on proximity to diseased neighbours, which demonstrates that marine disease spread can be highly constrained within patch reefs.

Annotated checklist of the decapod crustaceans of the Gulf of Oman, northwestern Indian Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4028 (3) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
REZA NADERLOO ◽  
SAEED EBRAHIMNEZHAD ◽  
ALIREZA SARI
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
Gulf Of Oman ◽  
Annotated Checklist

Ampelisca Krøyer, 1842 (Amphipoda: Ampeliscidae) in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4852 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-349
Author(s):  
FARZANEH MOMTAZI
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Gulf Of Oman ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The representatives of the genus Ampelisca Krøyer, 1842 collected during the PGGOOS expedition (the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman Oceanographic Study) were studied. The species Ampelisca persicus sp. nov., Ampelisca lowryi sp. nov. and Ampelisca linearis sp. nov. were described. A redescription of Ampelisca cyclops Walker, 1904 was prepared based on material of the western part of the Indian Ocean. The differences between this and other records of A. cyclops were studied. 

scholarly journals Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak on a Merchant Vessel, Indian Ocean, Australia, 2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1345-1348
Author(s):  
Timothy J.J. Inglis ◽  
Chantal Spittle ◽  
Hilary Carmichael ◽  
Jaala Downes ◽  
Marilina Chiari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Legionnaires Disease
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