Talk:Sarcocystis

Species listing
There are 56 species listed here currently. Some of these may be symonoms so the listing is subject to revision. DrMicro (talk) 16:47, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Current listing is now 90 species. DrMicro (talk) 13:31, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Current species listing now totals 99. DrMicro (talk) 12:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Current species listing is now 108. DrMicro (talk) 17:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Current species listing is now 116.86.43.121.108 (talk) 14:23, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

There are now 125 species listed here. Of this listing 8 appear to be duplicated names and at least one has been declared invalid so the real total is probably somewhat less than this. It seems unlikely that there are more than a handful of species omitted from the current listing. 86.43.121.108 (talk) 13:08, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Five more species added to the list (130 in all). This is probably all the species in this genus. The host listing is probably largely complete and given its size it may be worth moving the host-parasite listing to a new page. DrMicro (talk) 14:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I have moved the host-parasite listing to its own page to shorten this page. This should make it easier on the servers for future editing. This article now needs more material on the morphology of the parasites and on their molecular biology as the most of the basic parasitology is now complete. DrMicro (talk) 12:08, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Seven additional species have been added.DrMicro (talk) 16:50, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

All the currently recognised species are probably listed here now. Some may have been revised recently - this is becoming increasing common with DNA methods in use. The article now needs more molecular biology. Pages for each species also need to be created. DrMicro (talk) 13:57, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * "Sarcocystis markusi" has been added to the list of species. Source: Page 181 in J.P. Dubey et al., Sarococystosis of Animals and Humans (2nd ed.); CRC Press, 2016. IdleMan (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Need an expert to add critical info
i came here to look up and find out the TERRITORY where the disease occurs. while there are references to cases in several areas, there are no specific listings of territories where the disease is found.

this makes a difference because the reason i am here is that one of the strains which was just found was supposedly unique to the territory. i wanted to know which genus is normally associated with what territory, but there isn't anything about that in here.

also, what is an 'oocyst'? there isn't any link, yet it's mentioned as a key to the explanation. i looked it up myself on wiki, and there is one explanation, but it is for a specific organism and it's not clear if that is generalized to other uses of the term--such as this one here.

hopefully, someone can add this info in here. thanks! Number.6.freeman (talk) 00:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

The article you refer to (I'm assuming apicomplexan) is not about a specific organism; it is a description of a certain life cycle. All organisms that have oocysts have apicocomplexan life cycles, and the information regarding oocysts on that page applies to Sarcocystis. This is not clear in the apicomplexan article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.193.107.6 (talk) 19:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Found in Hamburgers
In Annals of Diagnostic Pathology Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2008, Pages 406–409 ("Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?"), an analysis of the meat 8 fast-food Hamburger found that two of the samples contained sarcocystis parasites.

"Water content by weight ranged from 37.7% to 62.4% (mean, 49%). Meat content in the hamburgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8% (median, 12.1%). The cost per gram of hamburger ranged from $0.02 to $0.16 (median, $0.03) and did not correlate with meat content. Electron microscopy showed relatively preserved skeletal muscle. A variety of tissue types besides skeletal muscle were observed including connective tissue (n = 8), blood vessels (n = 8), peripheral nerve (n = 8), adipose tissue (n = 7), plant material (n = 4), cartilage (n = 3), and bone (n = 2). In 2 hamburgers, intracellular parasites (Sarcocystis) were identified".--TraceyR (talk) 09:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)