Evidence to support horses as natural intermediate hosts for Sarcocystis neurona

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-36

  Mullaney, Thomas ^a   Murphy, Alice J ^a   Kiupel, Matti ^a   Bell, Julia A ^b   Rossano, Mary G ^a   Mansfield, Linda S ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Cyst forming coccidia; Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM); Intermediate host; Lifecycle; Neurological disease; Sarcocystis neurona

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; HORSE; HOST; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; RACCOON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SCHIZONT; SPINAL CORD; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

APICOMPLEXA; COCCIDIA; DASYPODIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS; ENHYDRA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MEPHITIDAE; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS FALCATULA; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA;

EID: 24144432781     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. M.A. Cheadle, S.M. Tanhauser, J.B. Dame, D.C. Sellon, M.T. Hines, P.E. Ginn, R.J. MacKay, and E.C. Greiner The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is an intermediate host for Sarcocystis neurona Int. J. Parasitol. 31 2001 330 335
2. M.A. Cheadle, C.A. Yowell, D.C. Sellon, M.T. Hines, P.E. Ginn, A.E. Marsh, R.J. MacKay, J.B. Dame, and E.C. Greiner The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is an intermediate host for Sarcocystis neurona Int. J. Parasitol. 31 2001 843 849
3. T.J. Cutler, R.J. MacKay, P.E. Ginn, K. Gillis, S.M. Tanhauser, E.V. LeRay, J.B. Dame, and E.C. Greiner Immunoconversion against Sarcocystis neurona in normal and dexamethasone-treated horses challenged with S. neurona sporocysts Vet. Parasitol. 95 2001 197 210
4. J.P. Dubey, and D.S. Lindsay Isolation in immunodeficient mice of Sarcocystis neurona from opossum (Didelphis virginiana) faeces, and its differentiation from Sarcocystis falcatula J. Parasitol. 28 1998 1823 1828
5. J.P. Dubey, D.S. Lindsay, D. Fritz, and C.A. Speer Structure of Sarcocystis neurona sarcocysts J. Parasitol. 87 2001 1323 1327
6. J.P. Dubey, D.S. Lindsay, W.J. Saville, S.M. Reed, D.E. Granstrom, and C.A. Speer A review of Sarcocystis neurona and equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) Vet. Parasitol. 95 2001 89 131
7. J.P. Dubey, D.E. Mattson, C.A. Speer, R.J. Baker, D.M. Mulrooney, S.J. Tornquist, A.N. Hamir, and T.C. Gerros Characterization of a Sarcocystis neurona isolate (SN6) from a naturally infected horse from Oregon J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46 1999 500 506
8. J.P. Dubey, D.E. Mattson, C.A. Speer, A.N. Hamir, D.S. Lindsay, B.M. Rosenthal, O.C. Kwok, R.J. Baker, D.M. Mulrooney, S.J. Tornquist, and T.C. Gerros Characteristics of a recent isolate of Sarcocystis neurona (SN7) from a horse and loss of pathogenicity of isolates SN6 and SN7 by passages in cell culture Vet. Parasitol. 95 2001 155 166
9. J.P. Dubey, W.J. Saville, J.F. Stanek, D.S. Lindsay, B.M. Rosenthal, M.J. Oglesbee, A.C. Rosypal, C.J. Njoku, R.W. Stich, O.C. Kwok, S.K. Shen, A.N. Hamir, and S.M. Reed Sarcocystis neurona infections in raccoons (Procyon lotor): evidence for natural infection with sarcocysts, transmission of infection to opossums (Didelphis virginiana), and experimental induction of neurologic disease in raccoons Vet. Parasitol. 100 2001 117 129
10. J.P. Dubey, W.J.A. Saville, D.S. Lindsay, R.W. Stich, J.F. Stanek, C.A. Speer, B.M. Rosenthal, C.J. Njoku, O.C. Kwok, S.K. Shen, and S.M. Reed Completion of the life cycle of Sarcocystis neurona J. Parasitol. 86 2000 1276 1280
11. C.K. Fenger, D.E. Granstrom, A.A. Gajadhar, N.M. Williams, S.A. McCrillis, S. Stamper, J.L. Langemeier, and J.P. Dubey Experimental induction of equine protozoal myeloencephlitis in horses using Sarcocystis sp. sporocysts from the opossum (Didelphis virginiana) Vet. Parasitol. 68 1997 199 213
12. D.E. Granstrom, J.P. Dubey, S.W. Davis, R. Fayer, J.C. Fox, K.B. Poonacha, R.C. Giles, and P.F. Comer Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis: antigen analysis of cultured Sarcocystis neurona merozoites J. Vet. Diagn. Invest. 5 1 1993 88 90
13. M. Kiupel, H.A. Simmons, S.D. Fitzgerald, A. Wise, J.G. Sikarskie, T.M. Cooley, S.R. Hollamby, and R. Maes West Nile virus infection in eastern fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) Vet. Pathol. 40 2003 703 707
14. N.D. Levine Veterinary Protozoology first ed. 1985 Iowa State University Press pp. 244-245
15. N.D. Levine The taxonomy of Sarcocystis (Protozoa, Apicomplexa) species J. Parasitol. 72 1986 372 382
16. Rossano, M.G., Schott, II, H.C., Kaneene, J.B., Murphy, A.J., Kruttlin, E.A., Hines, M.T., Sellon, D.C., Patterson, J.S., Elsheikha, H.M., Dubey, J.P., Mansfield, L.S. Effect of daily pyrantel tartrate in preventing Sarcocystis neurona infection in experimentally challenged horses. Am. J. Vet. Res., in press.
17. W.J.A. Saville, R.W. Stich, S.M. Reed, C.J. Njoku, M.J. Oglesbee, A. Wunschmann, D.L. Grover, A.L. Larew-Naugle, J.F. Stanek, D.E. Granstrom, and J.P. Dubey Utilization of stress in the development of an equine model for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis Vet. Parasitol. 95 2001 211 222
18. D.C. Sellon, D.P. Knowles, E.C. Greiner, M.T. Long, M.T. Hines, T. Hochstatter, K.M. Hasel, M. Ueti, K. Gillis, and J.B. Dame Depletion of natural killer cells does not result in neurologic disease due to Sarcocystis neurona in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency J. Parasitol. 90 2004 782 788
19. C.D. Sofaly, S.M. Reed, J.C. Gordon, J.P. Dubey, M.J. Ogleebee, C.J. Njoku, D.L. Grover, and W.J.A. Saville Experimental induction of equine protozoan myeloencephalitis (EPM) in the horse: effect of Sarcocystis neurona sporocyst inoculation dose on the development of clinical neurologic disease J. Parasitol. 88 2002 1164 1170
20. S. Soldati, M. Kiupel, A. Wise, R. Maes, C. Botteron, and N. Robert Meningoencephalomyelitis caused by Neospora caninum in a juvenile fallow deer (Dama dama) J. Vet. Med. Assoc. 51 2004 280 283
21. J.F. Stanek, J.P. Dubey, M.J. Oglesbee, S.M. Reed, D.S. Lindsay, L.A. Capitini, C.J. Njoku, K.L. Vittitow, and W.J. Saville Life cycle of Sarcocystis neurona in its natural intermediate host, the raccoon, Procyon lotor J. Parasitol. 88 2002 1151 1158
22. S.M. Tanhauser, C.A. Yowell, T.J. Cutler, E.C. Greiner, R.J. MacKay, and J.B. Dame Multiple DNA markers differentiate Sarcocystis neurona and Sarcocystis falcatula J. Parasitol. 85 1999 221 228