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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]]
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[[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]]
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*Cause meat inspection losses
 
*Cause meat inspection losses
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*''Sarcocystis'' in [[Muscles Inflammatory - Pathology#Protozoa|myositis]]
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*''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
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*[[Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis]]
 
*[[Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis]]
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*Myositis
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[[Image:Sarcocyst in muscle.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Sarcocyst (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
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**Histologically:
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***Merozoites causing focal and segmental [[Muscle Necrosis|necrosis]]
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***May involve [[Muscle Calcification|mineralisation]]
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***Non-purulent myositis with plasma cells, lymphocytes and macrophages
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**Diaphragm and masseters most severely affected
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==Test yourself with the Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidian Flashcards==
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[[Tissue_Cyst_Forming_Coccidian_Flashcards|Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidian Flashcards]]
    
[[Category:Tissue_Cyst_Forming_Coccidia]]
 
[[Category:Tissue_Cyst_Forming_Coccidia]]
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[[Category:To_Do_-_Parasites]]
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