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Muscular sarcocystosis in coyotes from Oklahoma
C A Cummings1, A A Kocan, R W Barker
1Department of Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078-2007, USA. rosscac@okstate.edu
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|November 21, 2000
Abstract:
In a recent survey in Oklahoma (USA), 52 free-ranging coyotes were examined for the presence of sarcocysts. Two of these coyotes were found infected with sarcocysts in skeletal muscle. By light microscopy, the cyst wall was thin and smooth. Ultrastructurally, the cyst wall had minute villar protrusions. The sarcocysts were 14.4 to 50.4 microm wide and 46.8 to 99 microm long. This is the first report of Sarcocystis sp. sarcocysts in the skeletal muscle of coyotes.