Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

J. R. Brocklebank, Speare, D. J., and Kent, M. L., “Microsporidian encephalitis of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in British Columbia.”, Can Vet J, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 631-3, 1995.

M. L. Kent, Dawe, S. C., and Speare, D. J., “Transmission of Loma salmonae (Microsporea) to chinook salmon in sea water.”, Can Vet J, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 98-101, 1995.

R. W. Shaw, Kent, M. L., Docker, M. F., Brown, A. M., Devlin, R. H., and Adamson, M. L., “A new species of Loma (Microsporea) in shiner perch (Cymatogaster aggregata).”, J Parasitol, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 296-301, 1997.

M. J. Higgins, Kent, M. L., Moran, J. D., Weiss, L. M., and Dawe, S. C., “Efficacy of the fumagillin analog TNP-470 for Nucleospora salmonis and Loma salmonae infections in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 45-9, 1998.

R. W. Shaw, Kent, M. L., and Adamson, M. L., “Modes of transmission of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia).”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 151-6, 1998.

M. L. Kent, Docker, M., Khattra, J., Vossbrinck, C. R., Speare, D. J., and Devlin, R. H., “A new Microsporidium sp. (microsporidia) from the musculature of the mountain whitefish Prosopium williamsoni from British Columbia: morphology and phylogeny.”, J Parasitol, vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 1114-9, 1999.

M. L. Kent, Dawe, S. C., and Speare, D. J., “Resistance to reinfection in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Loma salmonae (Microsporidia).”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 205-8, 1999.

S. J. Gresoviac, Khattra, J. S., Nadler, S. A., Kent, M. L., Devlin, R. H., Vivares, C. P., De La Fuente, E., and Hedrick, R. P., “Comparison of small subunit ribosomal RNA gene and internal transcribed spacer sequences among isolates of the intranuclear microsporidian Nucleospora salmonis.”, J Eukaryot Microbiol, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 379-87, 2000.

R. W. Shaw, Kent, M. L., Brown, A. M., Whipps, C. M., and Adamson, M. L., “Experimental and natural host specificity of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia).”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 131-6, 2000.

R. W. Shaw, Kent, M. L., and Adamson, M. L., “Innate susceptibility differences in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Loma salmonae (Microsporidia).”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 49-53, 2000.

J. S. Khattra, Gresoviac, S. J., Kent, M. L., Myers, M. S., Hedrick, R. P., and Devlin, R. H., “Molecular detection and phylogenetic placement of a microsporidian from English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus) affected by X-cell pseudotumors.”, J Parasitol, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 867-71, 2000.

R. W. Shaw, Kent, M. L., and Adamson, M. L., “Viability of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia) under laboratory conditions.”, Parasitol Res, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 978-81, 2000.

J. L. Matthews, Brown, A. M., Larison, K., Bishop-Stewart, J. K., Rogers, P., and Kent, M. L., “Pseudoloma neurophilia n. g., n. sp., a new microsporidium from the central nervous system of the zebrafish (Danio rerio).”, J Eukaryot Microbiol, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 227-33, 2001.

J. M. Ramsay, Speare, D. J., Dawe, S. C., and Kent, M. L., “Xenoma formation during microsporidial gill disease of salmonids caused by Loma salmonae is affected by host species (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, O. kisutch, O. mykiss) but not by salinity.”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 125-31, 2002.

M. L. Kent and Bishop-Stewart, J. K., “Transmission and tissue distribution of Pseudoloma neurophilia (Microsporidia) of zebrafish, Danio rerio (Hamilton).”, J Fish Dis, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 423-6, 2003.

C. M. Whipps and Kent, M. L., “Polymerase chain reaction detection of Pseudoloma neurophilia, a common microsporidian of zebrafish (Danio rerio) reared in research laboratories.”, J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 36-9, 2006.

J. L. Sanders and Kent, M. L., “Development of a sensitive assay for the detection of Pseudoloma neurophilia in laboratory populations of the zebrafish Danio rerio.”, Dis Aquat Organ, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 145-56, 2011.

J. L. Sanders, Myers, M. S., Tomanek, L., Cali, A., Takvorian, P. M., and Kent, M. L., “Ichthyosporidium weissii n. sp. (Microsporidia) infecting the arrow goby (Clevelandia ios).”, J Eukaryot Microbiol, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 258-67, 2012.

J. L. Sanders, Watral, V., Clarkson, K., and Kent, M. L., “Verification of intraovum transmission of a microsporidium of vertebrates: Pseudoloma neurophilia infecting the Zebrafish, Danio rerio.”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 9, p. e76064, 2013.

K. West, Miles, R., Kent, M. L., and J Frazer, K., “Unusual fluorescent granulomas and myonecrosis in Danio rerio infected by the microsporidian pathogen Pseudoloma neurophilia.”, Zebrafish, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 283-90, 2014.

S. T. Spagnoli, Xue, L., and Kent, M. L., “The common neural parasite Pseudoloma neurophilia is associated with altered startle response habituation in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio): Implications for the zebrafish as a model organism.”, Behav Brain Res, vol. 291, pp. 351-360, 2015.

S. T. Spagnoli, Xue, L., Murray, K. N., Chow, F., and Kent, M. L., “Pseudoloma neurophilia: a retrospective and descriptive study of nervous system and muscle infections, with new implications for pathogenesis and behavioral phenotypes.”, Zebrafish, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 189-201, 2015.

J. L. Sanders, Watral, V., Stidworthy, M. F., and Kent, M. L., “Expansion of the Known Host Range of the Microsporidium, Pseudoloma neurophilia.”, Zebrafish, vol. 13 Suppl 1, pp. S102-6, 2016.

G. D. Stentiford, Becnel, - J. J., Weiss, L. M., Keeling, P. J., Didier, E. S., Williams, B. - A. P., Bjornson, S., Kent, M. L., Freeman, M. A., Brown, M. J. F., Troemel, E. - R., Roesel, K., Sokolova, Y., Snowden, K. F., and Solter, L., “Microsporidia - Emergent Pathogens in the Global Food Chain.”, Trends Parasitol, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 336-348, 2016.

S. T. Spagnoli, Sanders, J. L., Watral, V., and Kent, M. L., “Pseudoloma neurophilia Infection Combined with Gamma Irradiation Causes Increased Mortality in Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Compared to Infection or Irradiation Alone: New Implications for Studies Involving Immunosuppression.”, Zebrafish, vol. 13 Suppl 1, pp. S107-14, 2016.