Histologic examination and DNA amplification will be performed on existing muscle biopsy specimens to confirm the diagnosis of muscular sarcocystosis in individual patients and to identify the responsible Sarcocystis spp.
High prevalence of human skeletal muscle sarcocystosis in south-east Asia.
Epidemiology and etiology in sheep
sarcocystosis. Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, v.65, n.2, p.49-54, 2008.
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.
Although fatalities affected 16 species of psittacine birds, mortality was highest in Old World species, which were most susceptible to the pulmonary form of
sarcocystosis. Along with the pathologic findings of this disease outbreak, a review of the pathophysiology of sarcosporidiosis is presented.
Differentials for progressive forebrain or vestibular signs in birds include thiamine, vitamin [B.sub.12], or vitamin E deficiency; proventricular dilatation disease; heavy metal toxicosis; neoplasia; aspergillosis;
sarcocystosis; cerebellar atrophy; and several viral diseases, including those caused by paramyxovirus 1 and 3, avian polyomavirus, and adenovirus.