| sarcocystis arctica (apicomplexa: sarcocystidae): ultrastructural description and its new host record, the alaskan wolf (canis lupus). | sarcocystis sarcocysts are common in muscles of herbivores but are rare in muscles of carnivores. here, we report sarcocysts in the muscles of a gray wolf (canis lupus) from alaska, usa, for the first time. sarcocysts extracted from the tongue of the wolf were up to 900 μm long and slender and appeared to have a relatively thin wall by light microscope. by transmission electron microscopy, the sarcocyst wall most closely resembled "type 9c," and had a wavy parasitophorous vacuolar membrane folde ... | 2016 | 27112760 |
| morphological and molecular characterization of sarcocystis arctica-like sarcocysts from the arctic fox (vulpes lagopus) from alaska, usa. | the muscles of herbivores commonly harbor sarcocysts of parasites belonging to species in the genus sarcocystis, but such muscle parasites are rare in carnivores. here, we report sarcocystis arctica-like sarcocysts in muscles of arctic foxes (vulpes lagopus) from alaska, usa, for the first time. the tongues of 56 foxes were examined for sarcocystis infection using several methods. sarcocystis bradyzoites were detected in pepsin digests of 13 (23.2%), and sarcocysts were found in histological sec ... | 2017 | 28503709 |