Person

Kent, Michael

Person ID
ZDB-PERS-990419-9
Email
Michael.Kent@orst.edu
URL
Affiliation
Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC)
Address
5274 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-5274 USA
Country
United States
Phone
(541) 737 8652
Fax
(541) 737 0496
ORCID ID
Biography and Research Interest
Dr. Kent is the Director for the Center for Salmon Disease Research, Dept. Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. His research area is fish diseases, focusing on infectious and non-infectious diseases of salmonids and zebrafish. Dr. Kent is a co-investigator with the University of Oregon International Zebrafish Resource Center and assists with research and diagnositics relating to zebrafish health.
Publications
Non-Zebrafish Publications
Other publications for 2001-2002

St-Hilaire, S., C. Ribble, C. Stephen, E. Anderson, G. Kurath, and M.L. Kent. 2002. Outbreak investigation of infectious hematopoietic necrosis viral disease in the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry in British Columbia, Canada. Aquaculture (in press).

Criscione, C.D., V. Watral, C.M. Whipps, M.S. Blouin, S.R.M. Jone, and
M.L. Kent2002. Ribosomal DNA sequences indicate isolated populations of
Ichthyophonus hoferi in geographic sympatry in the northeastern Pacific
Ocean. J. Fish Dis. (in press).

Heidel, J.R., B.F. Nowak, K.A. Fischer, V.G. Watral, and M.L. Kent. 2002. Visceral nodular cartilaginous metaplasia in rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. J. Vet. Diag. Invest. (in press)

Ramsay, J. M, D.J. Speare, S.C. Dawe, M.L. Kent. 2002. 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. Org. (in press).
Kent, M.L., M. Moser, A. Marques, J. Lom. Phylum Myxozoa Grassé, 1970. 2002. In: Lee, J., Leedale, G. , Bradbury, P. (ed.). An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa Vol. 1.. Soc. Protozool., Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas. pp. 127-148.

Brown, A.M.V., and Kent, M.L. 2002. Molecular diagnostics for Loma salmonae and Nucleospora salmonis (Microsporidia). In: Cunningham, C. Molecular diagnosis of salmonid diseases. Kluwer Acad. Publ., London, England. pp. 267-283.

Moran, J. D.W., and Kent M.L. 2002. Diagnosing Kudoa thyrsites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) In: Cunningham, C. Molecular diagnosis of salmonid diseases. Kluwer Acad. Publ., London, England pp. 329-345.

Kent, M.L., and O. Palenzuela. 2002. Myxozoa. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. MacMillan Reference Ltd. (Stockton Press), Basingstoke, Hampshire, England (in press).

Kent, M.L., and T.T. Poppe. 2002. Marine and Brackish Water - Coldwater Fishes. In: Woo, P.T.K., Bruno, D.W., and Lim, S.L. (eds.). Diseases of Finfish in Cage Culture. CAB Intl. Publ., Wallingford, Oxon, England. (in press).

Kent, M.L., V. Watral, S.C. Dawe, P. Reno, J.R. Heidel, S. M. Jones. 2001. Ichthyophonus and Mycobacterium-like bacterial infections in commercially-important rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. J. Fish Dis. 24: 427-431.

Kent, M.L., Andree, K.B., Bartholomew, J.L., El-Matbouli, M., Desser, S.S., Devlin, R.H., Hedrick, R.P., Hoffmann, R.W., Khattra, J., Hallett, S.L., Lester, R.J.G., Palenzeula, O., Siddall, M.E., Xiao, C. 2001. Recent advances in our knowledge of the Myxozoa. J. Euk. Microbiol. 48:395-413.

St.-Hilaire, S., C. Stephen, M. Kent, and C. Ribble. 2001. Sentinels in the bay: using farm fish to monitor for fish pathogens in the environment. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 58: 369-373

St-Hilaire, S. Ribble, C., G.S. Traxler, T. Davies, and M.L. Kent. 2001. Evidence for a carrier state of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Dis. Aquat. Org. 46: 173-179.

St.-Hilaire, S., C. Ribble, S. LaPatra, S. Chartrand, M.L. Kent. 2001. Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus specific antibody profiles in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Dis. Aquat. Org. 46: 1-6.

Chase, J.C., J.A. Dawson-Coates, J.D. Haddow, M.H. Stewart, L.R. Haines, D.J. Whitaker, M.L. Kent, R.W. Olafson., and T.W. Pearson. 2001. Soft flesh disease in Atlantic salmon: analysis of Kudoa thyrsites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) spore antigens using monoclonal antibodies. Dis. Aquat. Org. .45: 121-129.


Shaw, R.W., M.L. Kent, and M.L. Adamson. 2001. Innate phagocytic differences in uptake of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia) spores between Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), a resistant host, and chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), a susceptible host. J. Fish Shellfish Immunol. 11: 91-100.

Shaw, R.W., M.L. Kent, and M.L. Adamson. 2001. Innate susceptibility differences in chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Loma salmonae (Microsporidia). Dis. Aquat. Org. 43: 49-53.

Shaw, R.W., M.L. Kent, and M.L. Adamson. 2001. Viability of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia) under laboratory conditions. Parasitol. Res. 12: 978-981.