Sarcocystis encephalitis in a cockatiel
Jacobson, E.R.; Gardiner, C.H.; Nicholson, A.; Page, C.D.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 185(8): 904-906
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 6438034 Document Number: 232457
The ultrastructural characteristics of the causative agent of central nervous system disease in a cockatiel were typical of the coccidian group Apicomplexa, and the fact that organisms were free within the cytoplasm of infected cells and not within a vacuole, indicated they were Sarcocystis. Light and electron microscopic evaluation of brain tissue demonstrated protozoal organisms associated with areas of necrosis.