Publications
SCI Journal Papers
Liao, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Ho, Y.S.; Pulpipat, T.; Chen, S.C. (2017) Eustrongylides ignotus and Centrocestus sp. co-infection in farmed ornamental Mickey Mouse platy, Xiphophorus maculatus. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists. 37(4), 159-168.
Tsai, M.A.; Chen, I.H.; Wang, J.H.; Chou, S.J.; Li, T.H.; Leu, M.Y.; Ho, H.K; Yang, W.C. (2017) A probe-based qRT-PCR method to profile immunological gene expression in blood of captive beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). Peer J. 5:e3840.
Omkar Byadgi; Chen, Y.C.; Andrew C. Barnes; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Chen, S.C. (2016) Transcriptome analysis of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) after challenge with Lactococcus garvieae. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 58: 593-603, 2016.
Ho, P.Y.; Omkar Byadgi; Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Liaw, L.L.; Chen, S.C. (2016) Identification, Molecular Cloning of IL-1β and Its Expression Profile during Nocardia seriolae Infection in Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(10): 1670.
Omkar Byadgi; Chen, C.W.; Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Chen, S.C. (2016) De Novo Transcriptome Analysis of Differential Functional Gene Expression in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) after Challenge with Nocardia seriolae. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(8): 1315.
Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Terutoyo Yoshida; Chen, S.C. (2015) Genetic characteristics of Streptococcus dysgalactiae isolated from cage cultured cobia, Rachycentron canadum (L.). Journal of Fish Diseases. 38(12), 1037-1046.
Cao, T.T.; Tsai, M.A.; Yang, C.D.; Wang, P.C.; Kuo, T.Y.; Chen, H.C.G.; Chen, S.C. (2014) Vaccine Efficacy of Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Edwardsiella ictaluri against E. tarda in tilapia. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology.
Huang, H.Y.; Chen, Y.C.; Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Yeh, S.C.; Liang, H.J.; Chen, S.C. (2014) Efficacy of a formalin-inactivated vaccine against Streptococcus iniae infection in the farmed grouper Epinephelus coioides by intraperitoneal immunization. Vaccine. 32(51),7014-7020.
Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Liang, Y.C.; Chan, Y.; Chen, S.C. (2014) Nocardia seriolae, a causative agent of systematic granuloma in spotted butterfish, Scatophagus argus, Linn. African Journal of Microbiology Research. 8(38), 3441-3452.
Wang, Y.T.; Huang, H.Y.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Jiang, B.H.; Chen, S.C. (2014) Phosphoglycerate kinase enhanced immunity of the whole cell of Streptococcus agalactiae in tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 41(2), 250-259.
Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Cao, T.T.; Liao, P.C.; Liaw, L.L.; Chen, S.C. (2014) Immunoprotection of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Lactococcus garvieae against Lactococcosis in tilapia. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 59(6), 437-449.
Cheng, L.; Lin, W.H.; Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Hsu, J.P.; Chen, S.C. (2013) White spot syndrome virus epizootic in cultured Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone) in Taiwan. Journal of Fish Diseases. 36(12), 977–985.
Chang, W.H.; Yang, S.Y.; Wang, C.H.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Chen, T.Y.; Chen, S.C.; Lee, G.B. (2013) Rapid isolation and detection of aquaculture pathogens in an integrated microfluidic system using loop-mediated isothermal amplification. Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical.
Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Terutoyo Yoshida; Liaw, L.L.; Chen, S.C. (2013) Development of a sensitive and specific LAMP PCR assay for detection of fish pathogen Lactococcus garvieae. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Liaw, L.L.; Terutoyo Yoshida; Chen, S.C. (2012) Comparison of genetic characteristics and pathogenicity of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from aquatic animals in Taiwan. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
Tsai, M.A.; Ho, P.Y.; Wang, P.C.; E, Y.J.; Liaw, L.L.; Chen, S.C. (2012) Development of a multiplex polymerase chain reaction to detect five common Gram-negative bacteria of aquatic animals. Journal of Fish Diseases.
Cheng, L.T.; Lin, W.H.; Wang, P.C.; Tsai, M.A.; Ho, P.Y.; Hsu, J.P.; Chern, R.S.; Chen, S.C. (2011) Epidemiology and phylogenetic analysis of Taura syndrome virus in cultured Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei B. in Taiwan. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
Cheng, L.T.; Chen, C.Y.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Hsu, J.P.; Chern, R.S.; Chen, S.C. (2011) Koi herpesvirus epizootic in cultured carp and koi, Cyprinus carpio L., in Taiwan. Journal of Fish Diseases.
Shimahara Yoshiko; Huang, Y.F.; Li, Y.L.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Chen, S.C. (2010) Growth characteristics and morphological changes of fish pathogen Nocardia seriolae in submerged culture. The Aquiculture.
Yoshiko Shimahara; Huang, Y.F.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Chen, S.C. (2010) Immune response of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, to whole cells of different Nocardia seriolae strains. Fisheries Science.
Shimahara; Huang, Y.F.; Tsai, M.A.; Wang, P.C.; Terutoyo Yoshida; Lee, J.L; Chen, S.C. (2009) Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of fish pathogen, Nocardia seriolae, isolated in Taiwan. Aquaculture.
Wang, P.C.; Chen, S.D.; Tsai, M.A.; Weng, Y.J.; Chu, S.Y.; Chern, R.S.; Chen, S.C. (2009) Nocardia seriolae infection in the three striped tigerfish, Terapon jarbua (Forsskål). Journal of Fish Diseases.
Wang, P.C.; Huang, J.P.; Tsai, M.A.; Cheng, S.Y.; Tsai, S.S.; Chen, S.D.; Chen, S.P.; Chiu, S.H.; Liaw, L.L.; Chang, L.T.; Chen, S.C. (2005) Systemic infection of Kudoa lutjanus n. sp.(Myxozoa: Myxosporea) in red snapper Lutjanus erythropterus from Taiwan. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.
Su, H.Y.; Wang, P.C.; Lien, Y.Y.; Tsai, M.A.; Liu, S.S.; Wu, K.C.; Hsieh, C.H.; Chen, S.C. (2005) Upregulation of actin-like gene expression in giant freshwater prawns Macrobrachium rosenbergii infected with Metschnikowia bicuspidata. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.