Project: Identify and Characterize the Adhesion Molecules Involved in Infection, Migration and Propagation of Myxobolus cerebralis in Salmonid Hosts

Primary Investigator: C.A. Speer
Project Summary: This project has developed an in vito cultivation system for the presporogonic stages of Myxobolus cerebralis. Cultures of epidermal, neural and cartilaginous cells from salmonids were infected with sporoplasms derived from the TAMs. Several monoclonal antibodies were generated that showed different reaction patterns on the TAMs as determined by immunofluorescence microscopy. These monoclonal antibodies and their vitro cultivation system will be used in future experiments to study the adhesion molecules involved in parasite attachment, migration and development in salmonid hosts.
Funding Period: 1998-1999
Final Report: Speer_98-99.pdf
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