Sarcocystis Species Richness in Sheep and Goats from Lithuania.

ABSTRACT: Contradictory data is available on the intermediate host specificity of Sarcocystis spp. in farm animals. Therefore, the current work aimed at molecularly testing samples of sheep and goats reared in Lithuania to identify Sarcocystis species described in other intermediate hosts but suspected to be non-canonical parasites to these small ruminants. For this purpose, muscle samples from 47 domestic sheep and nine goats were examined. Sarcocystis species were identified using direct and nested PCR targeting cox1 and sequencing of positive amplified products. Along with the detection of the canonical Sarcocystis spp. in their respective intermediate hosts, the DNA of S. capracanis and S. morae was detected in sheep, although these

SUBMITTER: Marandykina-Prakiene A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10458481 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature