Sarcocystis lindemanni
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From the Greek word sarx meaning meat and flesh and kystos meaning cyst. The species name honors the German physician C. Lindemann, who – in the service of the Russian Emperor – described in 1863 tissue cysts in the muscles of humans.
Geographic Distribution/Epidemiology
Worldwide; similar looking tissue cysts occur mostly in small numbers (Fig. 1) in the muscles of humans and monkeys.
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Lindemann C (1863) Psorospermes chez l’homme. Bull SocImpériale Naturalistes Moscow 36:425–436
Mehlhorn H, Heydorn AO (1978) Thesarcosporidia: fine structure and life cycle. Adv Parasitol 16:43–92
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Sarcocystis Species: Humans as Intermediate Hosts. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_4489
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