FINE STRUCTURE OF SARCOCYSTIS BLANCHARDI DOFLEIN, 1901 FROM THE EGYPTIAN BUFFALO

Document Type : Research article

Author

Depatment of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Abstract

The fine structure of Sarcocystis blanchardi DOFLEIN, 1901 from the Egyptian buffalo, has for the first time been studied. The ultrastructure of the cyst wall and the trophozoites as well as the mode of multiplication has been found to be more or less identical with that described in Sarcocystis tenella of sheep, previously desciibed by LUDVICK (1958) and MEHLHORN and SCHOLTYSECK (1973). Accordingly it is suggested that S. blanchardi DOFLEIN. 1901 is a synonym to S. tenella RAILLIET, 1886.