File:Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis.jpg
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Summary
Description | Sarcocystis neurona stages and lesions. (A). Cross section of spinal cord of horse with focal areas of discoloration (arrows) indicative of necrosis. Unstained. (B). Section of spinal cord of a horse with severe EPM. Necrosis, and a heavily infected neuron (arrows), all dots (arrows) are merozoites. H and E stain . (C). Higher magnification of a dendrite with numerous merozoites (arrows). One extracellular merozoite (arrowhead) and a young schizont (double arrowhead). (D). Section of brain of an experimentally-infected mouse stained with anti-S. neurona antibodies. Note numerous merozoites (arrows). (E). Immature schizonts in cell culture. A schizont with multilobed nucleus (arrow) and a schizont with differentiating merozoites (arrowheads). Giemsa stain. (F). Mature sarcocysts with hairlike villar protrusions (double arrowheads) on the sarcocyst wall. H and E stain. (G). Mature live sarcocyst with numerous septa (arrows) and hairlike protrusions on the sarcocyst wall (double arrowheads). Unstained. (H). An oocyst with two sporocysts each with banana-shaped sporozoites. Unstained. |
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Date |
July 2005 |
Source |
USDA Agricultural Research Service page on EPM/Sarcocystis neurona, located at Wikimedia Commons |
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Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. |
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