Newly found probiotic may defend Caribbean corals threatened by lethal, devastating illness

Researchers have found the primary efficient bacterial probiotic for treating and stopping stony coral tissue loss illness (SCTLD), a mysterious ailment that has devastated Florida’s coral reefs since 2014 and is quickly spreading all through the Caribbean. The probiotic remedy offers an alternative choice to using the broad-spectrum antibiotic amoxicillin, which has to this point been the one confirmed remedy for the illness however which runs the chance of selling antibiotic-resistant micro organism.