PRO/AH/EDR> Equine sarcocystosis: horse, human, new research

Other Animal Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Historically, veterinarians have reported finding parasites in the skeletal muscle of some horses with neuromuscular disease. One they’ve always written off as an incidental finding or not actually related to the neuromuscular disorder is the protozoan parasite _Sarcocystis fayeri_.
Monica Aleman, MVZ, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), School of Veterinary Medicine, believes, however, that there’s more to