Sarcocystis caninum and Sarcocystis svanai n. spp. (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) Associated with Severe Myositis and Hepatitis in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)

• Main Authors: Dubey, Jitender P, Sykes, Jane E, Shelton, G Diane, Sharp, Nick, Verma, Shiv K, Calero‐Bernal, Rafael, Viviano, Jenifer, Sundar, Natarajan, Khan, Asis, Grigg, Michael E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: Infection; Good Health and Well Being; Animals; British Columbia; Cluster Analysis; Colorado; DNA; Ribosomal; Dog Diseases; Dogs; Hepatitis; Animal; Microscopy; Molecular Sequence Data; Montana; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Myositis; Phylogeny; Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA; 18S; Sarcocystis; Sarcocystosis; Canada; dog; USA; Microbiology; Zoology; Mycology & Parasitology; Arctic; Ursus maritimus; Vulpes lagopus
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sf4j0s9

There are several reports of Sarcocystis sarcocysts in muscles of dogs, but these species have not been named. Additionally, there are two reports of Sarcocystis neurona in dogs. Here, we propose two new names, Sarcocystis caninum, and Sarcocystis svanai for sarcocysts associated with clinical muscu...