sarcocystis is one of the most prevalent parasites of domestic ruminants worldwide. this study was aimed to determine prevalence of sarcocystis infection and molecular discrimination of sarcocystis gigantea and sarcocystis medusiformis infecting domestic sheep. tissue samples from 638 sheep slaughtered at urmia abattoir were randomly collected from february 2011 to january 2012. genomic dna ext...

introduction: the main agents of sarcocystosis in cattle as an intermediate host include s. cruzi, s. hominis and s. hirsuta. a sensitive and specific tool such as molecular-based techniques would be necessary to identify the species. case report: after collection of beef sample from yazd slaughterhouse, dna extraction was done with salting out method. the 18srrna gene as a specific target gene...

Wild animals are natural reservoir hosts for a variety of pathogens that can be transmitted to other wildlife, livestock, domestic animals, and humans. deer (family Cervidae) in Europe, Asia, North South America have been reported infected with gastrointestinal vector-borne parasites. In Australia, wild populations expanded considerably recent years, yet there is little information regarding wh...

The common gull (Larus canus) and the black-headed ridibundus) are waterbird species in Lithuania. Until now, composition of Sarcocystis these birds was unknown. current study aimed to identify spp. by morphological examination sarcocysts found muscle tissues DNA sequence analysis. Between 2011 2019, leg muscles 42 gulls 63 were tested for Based on methylene blue staining squashed samples, dete...

Piroplasmosis caused by different tick-borne hemoprotozoan parasites of the genera Theileria and Babesia is among the most economically important infections of domestic ruminants in sub-Saharan Africa. A survey for piroplasm infection was conducted in three locations in Northern Ethiopia. Of 525 domestic ruminants surveyed, 80% of the cattle, 94% of the sheep and 2% of the goats were positive f...

The number of Sarcocystis species that infect sea otters (Enhydra lutris) is unknown. Sea otter tissues were recently shown to harbor sarcocysts of S. neurona and of unidentified species of Sarcocystis. Whereas sarcocysts of S. neurona have walls 1-3 microm thick with type 9 villar protrusions, ultrastructure of a distinct thin-walled sarcocyst (0.5-0.7 microm thick) lacking villar protrusions,...