Sentence examples for sarcocystis from inspiring English sources

Toxoplasma gondii, which can affect humans too, spreads its hardy spores through cat feces, while sarcocystis neurona is spread through opossum feces.

The principal culprits, the scientists say, are toxoplasma gondii and sarcocystis neurona, parasites that can cause fatal diseases in the brains and nervous systems of otters and other animals.

The shellfish, she said, could have picked up sarcocystis neurona from the runoffs of heavy rains in February.

The 11 otters killed by sarcocystis neurona were found in a cluster of 14 around Morro Bay, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

But in April, scientists confirmed that at least 11 of the 62 otters that were found washed up on the shore had died from exposure to sarcocystis neurona.

But wildlife experts began to see signs that Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona were killing sea otters.

Another brain parasite, Sarcocystis neurona, is spread similarly, but by opossums.

Toxoplasma and Sarcocystis can create cysts in otters' brains.

Sarcocystis neurona killed 7percentt, and a seabird-borne intestinal parasite called Acanthocephalan peritonitis, or thorny-headed worm, killed 16percentt.