Sarcocystis sinensis is an ultrastructurally distinct parasite of water buffalo that can cause foodborne illness but cannot complete its life-cycle in human beings

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 35-39

  Chen, Xinwen ^a,b   Zuo, Yangxian ^a   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^c   He, Yongshu ^b   Cui, Liwang ^d   Yang, Zhaoqing ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Definitive host; Food safety; Infection; Morphology; Sarcocystis hominis; Sarcocystis sinensis; Ultrastructure; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FOOD POISONING; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS HOMINIS; SARCOCYSTIS SINENSIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROCYST; STOMACH PAIN; WATER BUFFALO;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; SARCOCYSTIS HOMINIS; SARCOCYSTIS SINENSIS;

EID: 79956157000     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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