Prevalence of Sarcocystis Species (Sarcocystis ovicanis and Sarcocystis capricanis) in Tongue Muscle of Sheep and Goats in Duhok Province, Kurdistan Region, North Iraq

Abstract

Abstract-Sarcocystis

Histopathological Survey on <i>Sarcocystis</i> Species Infection in Slaughtered Cattle of Zabol-Iran

“…It seems useful to do accurate recognition of S. hirsuta and S. hominis thick-walled cyst but it was not possible for us considering some problems in ultrastructure observation of primary cysts wall via electron microscopy which is too expensive and difficult to access (30). In present histopathological investigation, opposite to some studies which reported the existence of inflammatory reactions around some sarcocysts continuing to degeneration (18,21,29), no inflammatory reaction was found.…”

Survey on Sarcocystis infection in imported male cattle carcasses slaughtered at Duhok abattoir, Kurdistan region of Iraq

“…Estimation of the coccidian protozoa prevalence (cyst either bradyzoite) form by using various approach including Macroscopy (detection of Macro-cyst) Microscopy (Pepsin /Trypsin digestion, impression on slide or squash squeezing smear and histopathology approach), Serology either by ELISA or IFA and also molecular approach is recently wildly used for detection of the gene prevalent (Bahari et al 2014;Metwally et al 2014;Meistro et al 2015;Banothu et al 2017;Zangana and Hussein 2017).…”

“…Our study findings show a significant difference between the different methods applied for identification of Sarcocystis spp. Hydrochloric acid digestion method used as a great measurement for any organ associated with presence of the microcyst development stage and it gives high accuracy rate up to 100% with presence of the bradyzoites featured in banana shape and the nucleus appeared towards to the posterior end when stained by H &E and toluidine blue and considered as a gold standard method by many researchers (Arshad et al 2007;Zangana and Hussein 2017).…”

“…The result supported our observation that histological section revealed only the presence of Sarcocystis developmental phase in a prepared section for that more section needed to support neither the slaughtered animal infected or not. However, Zangana and Hussein (2017) explained the histological lesion give high intensity of cyst presence in different size and shape in tissue sample.…”

The Light Microscopy and Ultrastructural Characteristics of Sarcocystis Fusiformis Infecting Buffaloes in Iraq

“…Latif et al (1999) Whaeeb et al (2016) in Baghdad studied the molecular structure of four Sarcocystis species from sheep esophagus and muscle. Zangana and Hussein (2017) in Duhok Province, Kurdistan region, Northern Iraq studied the prevalence of S. ovicanis and S. capricanis in sheep and goats tongue muscle. Scioscia et al (2017) reported three S. fusiformis.…”