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[[Image:Sarcocystis Life Cycle.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocytis'' Life Cycle Diagram - Dennis Jacobs & Mark Fox RVC]]

[[Image:Sarcocystis Life Cycle.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocytis'' Life Cycle Diagram - Dennis Jacobs & Mark Fox RVC]]

[[Image:Sarcocystic.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocytis'' - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Sarcocystic.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocytis'' - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Sarcocystis in sheep oesophagus.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocystis'' in sheep oesophagus - Adam Cuerden]]

[[Image:Sarcocystis in sheep oesophagus.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocystis in sheep oesophagus'' <br> Adam Cuerden, Wikimedia Commons]]

[[Image:Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis - Wikimedia Commons]]

[[Image:Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis - Wikimedia Commons]]

[[Image:Sarcocystis cruzi.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocystis cruzi'' - Courtesy of the Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine]]

[[Image:Sarcocystis cruzi.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Sarcocystis cruzi'' - Courtesy of the Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine]]

*Cause meat inspection losses

*Cause meat inspection losses

*''Sarcocystis'' in [[Muscles Inflammatory - Pathology#Protozoa|myositis]]

*''Sarcocystis'' in [[Parasitic Myositis#Protozoa|myositis]]

*Experimental infections cause severe, acute pyrexic disease when the organism multiplies in the vascular endothelium

*Experimental infections cause severe, acute pyrexic disease when the organism multiplies in the vascular endothelium

**Causes abortion and post-natal disease in sheep

**Causes abortion and post-natal disease in sheep

*Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

*[[Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis]]

**Necrotising encephalomyelitis affecting the grey and white matter of the CNS

 

**Caused by ''S.neurona''

*Myositis

**Opossum thought to be the definitive host

[[Image:Sarcocyst in muscle.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Sarcocyst (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]

**Horses thought to be accidental hosts

**Histologically:

**Natural intermediate hosts currently unknown

***Merozoites causing focal and segmental [[Muscle Necrosis|necrosis]]

**Western Blotting shows 50% of horses in the USA are seropositive

***May involve [[Muscle Calcification|mineralisation]]

**Risk factors poorly understood

***Non-purulent myositis with plasma cells, lymphocytes and macrophages

**Causes spinal cord dysfunction

**Diaphragm and masseters most severely affected

***Ataxia and paralysis[[Category:Tissue_Cyst_Forming_Coccidia]]

 

 

 

[[Category:Tissue_Cyst_Forming_Coccidia]]

 

[[Category:To_Do_-_Parasites]]