| gastric spiral bacteria and intramuscular sarcocysts in african lions from namibia. | six juvenile male, one adult male, and three adult, female african lions (panthera leo) from etosha national park, republic of namibia were presented for necropsy. two of four adults and one of six juveniles had moderate numbers of gastric spiral bacteria. additionally, four of four adults had sarcocysts. all juveniles had enteric sarcocystis sp. oocysts, but no sarcocysts. the gastric spiral bacteria were located extracellularly in fundic and pyloric glands, and also apparently intracellularly ... | 1998 | 9577779 |
| naturally occurring sarcocystis infection in domestic cats (felis catus). | equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is an important neurological disease of horses in the united states. consequently, there is an active research effort to identify hosts associated with the primary causative agent, sarcocystis neurona. the purpose of this study was to determine whether the domestic cat (felis catus) is a natural host for s. neurona. muscle sections from 50 primarily free-roaming domestic cats were examined for the presence of sarcocysts. serum from cats in this group and anothe ... | 2003 | 12865087 |
| inference of molecular phylogeny of sarcocystis felis (sarcocystidae) from cats based on nuclear-encoded ribosomal gene sequences. | the phylogenetic position of four clinical isolates of sarcocystis felis was assessed using ssurrna and its1 gene sequences in the context of a wide array of other sarcocystis sp. phylogenetic reconstructions using neighbour-joining and maximum parsimony methods generated identical tree topologies with strong support values at each node. high ssurrna sequence similarity (> or =99%) and the resulting phylogeny demonstrated that s. felis and s. neurona are significantly closely related to each oth ... | 2006 | 16927860 |
| sarcocystosis of sarcocystis felis in cats. | the features of s. felis sarcocystosis in muscles of the domestic cats (felis domesticus) were studied. a complete clinical history, post mortem, and histo-pathologic examinations were done for each cat. multiple protozoan elliptical cysts were in the skeletal muscles, heart, and diaphragm muscles of 3/17 (17.6%) adult cats. ultrastructural characteristics of the bradyzoites and cyst wall were consistent with those described for s. felis in bobcat and domestic cat. clinico-pathological study in ... | 2006 | 17153714 |
| molecular and morphologic characterization of sarcocystis felis (apicomplexa: sarcocystidae) in south american wild felids from brazil. | wild felids are thought to share parasites with domestic cats. however, little is known of the coccidian parasites of wild felids. we investigated the presence of sarcocystis spp. in tissues of 6 species of 90 neotropical small felids killed in road accidents in the state of rio grande do sul, brazil by using microscopic and molecular techniques. formalin-fixed tissues from 28 felids were examined, and sarcocystis felis-like sarcocysts were detected in 4 wild cats (2 puma yagouaroundi and 2 leop ... | 2016 | 26827854 |