1) The transmission dynamics of the protozoan parasite Sarcocystis carnae (C̆erná and Louc̆ková 1976) (Apicomplexa, Eimeroidea, Sarcocystidae) in natural populations were studied in the ...

Sarcocystis is an apicomplexan parasite group that employs a two‐host life cycle, with sexual reproduction occurring in the definitive host and asexual reproduction in the intermediate host. Recent ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this article the authors Yueying Yang, Mengzhu Zheng, Yang Liu, Yali Wang, Yang Xu, Yirong Zhou, Dejuan Sun, Lixia Chen and Hua Li from ...

GUANGZHOU, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The metagenome sequence of the novel coronavirus strain separated from pangolins was 99 percent identical to that from infected people, indicating pangolins may be an ...

The pangolin may be an intermediate host for the novel coronavirus, given that the genome sequence of a virus strain taken from the animal was up to 99 percent identical to that of the virus that ...

As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus' genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of the new ...

When a new zoonotic outbreak occurs, scientists rush to trace the species the infection originated from. Often the infection jumps from its initial animal carrier to an intermediate host species, ...

An investigation by the World Health Organization into the origins of COVID-19 will instead focus on the virus’s animal origins and the possibility of spread through frozen foods. Flies carrying ...

The world’s most trafficked mammal may be involved in the Wuhan outbreak, but the evidence is far from clear. By James Gorman In the search for the animal source or sources of the coronavirus epidemic ...