Project: Development of New Cultured Cell Line from Salmonids

Primary Investigator: C.A. Speer
Project Summary: Upon entering fish, the whirling disease parasite first infects epidermal tissue, then migrates through neural tissue, and then matures and produces spores in the cartilage of the head. Since this process happens over several months, this project developed techniques to generate cultures of those three kinds of cells to assist further studies on the development of the parasite, and its interactions with the tissues of the host fish. The long-term goal is to develop unconventional strategies to block the parasite's invasion, migration, and development. The study also developed an improved processing method for detecting the parasite in worm and fish hosts by using a different buffer for extracting the parasite DNA and PCR analysis.
Funding Period: 1997-1998
Final Report: Speer_97-98.pdf
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