Heteroxenous coccidia (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) in the populations of their final and intermediate hosts: European buzzard and small mammals

Abstract

The prevalences of brain and muscle sarcosporidians (Sarcocystis and Frenkelia) in small mammals are influenced by similar factors in different host-parasite combinations.

Keywords

• Apodemus
• Buteo
• Clethrionomys
• Frenkelia
• life cycles
• Microtus
• Sarcocystis
• Sorex
• transmission
• wildlife parasites