Abstract
Seven of 100 wild boars (Sus sucrofa) captured in Saitama, Gunma and Fukushima Prefectures, Japan, were positive for Sarcocystis cysts by light-or electron-microscopy. Fresh mature cysts from the diaphragm and heart were 450-2, 120×115-140μm in size, and the cyst wall 4 to 6μm thick showed a palisade-like structure. Scanning electron microscorsy revealed mamy villar protrusions 4μm in length and 1μm in width on the cyst surface. Nine or more days after ingestion of the infected boar muscle, two 6-month-old dogs excreted oocysts and sporulated sporocysts 12-13×10μm in size, in the feces. Based upon the Size and fine Structure of cysts and host Specificity, the detected species was identified as S. miescheriama Kuhn, 1865.
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