SCHOLAR DETAILS
Name
David J. Speare
Email
speare@upei.ca
Position
Faculty Member
Department(s)
Pathology and Microbiology
Phone
902-566-0807
Building
Veterinary Medicine 3318N
Website
https://www.upei.ca/profile?u=speare
Status
Current
Biography

Professor, Fish Pathology

DVM, DVSc (Guelph)

Recent Citations
Microsporidiosis (Loma salmonae)
Climate change and infectious fish diseases, 2020
Cleaner fish diseases
Journal of Fish Diseases, 2019
Development of the microsporidian parasite, Loma salmonae, in a rainbow trout gill epithelial cell line (RTG-1): evidence of xenoma development in vitro
Parasitology, 2015
Development of the microsporidian parasite, Loma salmonae, in a rainbow trout gill epithelial cell line (RTG-1): evidence of xenoma development in vitro
Parasitology, 2015
Static tank depuration and chronic short-term experimental contamination of Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) with Giardia duodenalis cysts
International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2015
Research Interests
Immunoprophylactic and therapeutic control strategies for gill diseases of farmed fish
Basic and applied research into the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of economically significant diseases of farmed fish
Stabilization of epicellular biofilm components for ultrastructural examinatioIdentification and evaluation of candidate treatments for branchial diseases of farmed fish