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sarcosporidiosis

[‚sär·kō·spə‚rid·ē′ō·səs]

(veterinary medicine)

A disease of mammals other than humans caused by muscle infestation by sporozoans of the order Sarcosporida.

Sarcosporidiosis

a chronic and usually asymptomatic invasive disease affecting domestic and wild animals (and sometimes man) that is caused by the unicellular parasites sarcocysts. Sarcosporidiosis is characterized by the formation in muscle tissue of cysts (Miescher’s tubes) filled with trophozoites (spores). Massively infected animals suffer from lameness, endomyocarditis, and paralysis. Diagnosis is made after death; Lubianetskii’s compressor method is used to find the cysts. No treatment exists. Carcasses and organs that are heavily infected are used by nonfood industry.

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Detection of sarcocystosis in slaughterhouse animals during a veterinary inspection.

Sarcocystis spp. en tejidos musculares de bufalos de agua (Bubalus bubalis) en Venezuela

No proven treatment exists for human muscular sarcocystosis, but in all previously reported cases, symptoms resolved over weeks to months.

Acute muscular sarcocystosis among returning travelers--Tioman Island, Malaysia, 2011

Diagnosis of sarcocystosis by Sarcocystis gigantea was confirmed by epidemiologic, macroscopic, and microscopic findings (DUBEY et al.

Natural Sarcocystis gigantea infection in sheep from Southern Brazil/Infeccao natural por Sarcocystis gigantea em ovinos no Rio Grande do Sul

Toxoplasmosis, sarcocystosis, isosporosis, and cyclosporosis.

Morphometric analysis of the intestinal wall and the dynamic of mucins secreted in the chicken ileum infected with Toxoplasma gondii/Analise morfometrica da parede intestinal e dinamica de mucinas secretadas no ileo de frangos infectados por Toxoplasma gondii

Sanitation and Detoxification of Alpaca Meat (Vicugna pacos) with Sarcocystosis by Physical and Chemical Methods of Home Use

Saneamiento y detoxificacion de carne de alpaca (Vicugna pacos) con sarcocistosis mediante tratamientos fisicos y quimicos de uso domestico

This report describes an outbreak of acute pulmonary sarcocystosis in different species of captive psittacine birds and in a Luzon bleeding-heart pigeon (Gallicolumba luzonica) in a zoologic collection in Brazil.

Avian Dis.: An outbreak of sarcocystosis in psittacines and a pigeon in a zoologic collection in Brazil

These include morbillivirus infection, brucellosis, toxoplasmosis, sarcocystosis, papillomavirus infection, and West Nile virus infection (29,31,33).