background: sarcocystis infection is one of the most common zoonotic protozoon diseases caused by different sarcocystis spp. objectives: due to the importance of this infection in public health, the infection rate of macroscopic and microscopic cysts in sheep and cattle of abattoir of shahriar, was investigated. methods: 138 slaughtered sheep and cattle were selected randomly and their esophagu...

AIM The main objectives of this study were to determine the incidence of Sarcocystis sp. infection in cattle and buffalo carcasses slaughtered at El-Kharga abattoir, New Valley Governorate, Egypt. MATERIALS AND METHODS The slaughtered animals were daily inspected for Sarcocystis macrocysts through a year (2015). Macroscopic Sarcocystis was detected from a total of 2120 cattle and buffalo carc...

Dogs on the Galapagos Islands are a unique population created by isolation from the mainland and regulations prohibiting further importation. The effect of infectious agents of these domestic dogs on the indigenous fauna is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites in dogs on the Galapagos Islands. Fecal samples were collected from 97 dog...

Serum samples from 315 horses from Costa Rica, Central America, were examined for the presence of antibodies against Sarcocystis neurona, Neospora spp., and Toxoplasma gondii by using the surface antigen (SAG) SnSAG2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), the NhSAG1 ELISA, and the modified agglutination test, respectively. Anti- S. neurona antibodies were found in 42.2% of the horses by usi...

materials and methods random sampling was carried out from january to may 2012. one hundred and forty fecal samples from stray cats were examined using sucrose flotation method. results gastrointestinal parasites were found in 121 of the 140 (86.4%) examined samples. the parasites detected in stray cats were toxocara spp. (45%, 63/140), isospora spp. (21.4%, 30/140), nematode larvae (21.4%, 30/...

Parasitic infections adopt a rather low profile in the highly urbanized setting in Singapore. Very few food-borne parasitic infections are encountered. Apart from a few reports of infections with Clonorchis/Opisthorchis, Taenia spp. and hydatid disease, there are no other citations of such helminthic infections. Seroprevalence surveys have shown the presence of toxoplasmosis in local meat anima...

The esophagus, diaphragm and heart muscle of 154 roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) hunter-killed in Lugo provine e (Northwestern Spain) were examined, by the compression method, for the presence of sarcocysts of Sarcocystis spp. The overall preva1ence of infection was 80.5%, with a density of infection of 15 ± 16.8 cysts/g. The highest density of infection corresponded to the heart, and in particu...

Sarcocystis is an obligatory intracellular protozoan parasite which can infect humans and animals. Sheep are intermediate hosts of four Sarcocystis species: Sarcocystis tenella, Sarcocystis gigantea, Sarcocystis arieticanis, and Sarcocystis medusiformis The purpose of this study was to perform a molecular identification of the macroscopic and microscopic cysts of Sarcocystis in sheep. In this i...