Infection rate, histopathology, and identification of Sarcocystis SPP. infection in slaughtered Philippine water buffaloes collected from the veterinary inspection board, Tondo, Manila

• Main Author: Cruz, Mary Jane P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1999
• Subjects: Water buffalo > Infections; Cattle > Diseases; Cattle > Parasites; Sarcocystosis; Protozoan diseases; Animal Experimentation and Research; Other Immunology and Infectious Disease; Parasitology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1970
• Institution: De La Salle University

Sarcocystis infection was detected in 83.33 percent of the 120 carcasses of Philippine water buffaloes surveyed in the Veterinary Inspection Board, Tondo, Manila. Macroscopic sarcocysts and two forms of microscopic sarcocysts, the spindle-shaped or fusiform cysts and the globular to oval cysts were...