Pig, donkey and buffalo meat as a source of some coccidian parasites infecting dogs.

Experimental infection of dogs with meat samples (oesophagus, heart and diaphragm) from each of 105 pigs, 11 donkeys and 17 Egyptian water buffaloes indicated that they contained the infective stages of some coccidian parasites of dogs. The dogs which were fed pig meat shed in their faeces Isospora ohioensis, I. canis oocysts and Sarcocystis miescheriana sporocysts after prepatent periods of 3-5, 4-7 and 9-10 days, respectively. The dogs which were fed donkey meat excreted only I. ohioensis oocysts and Sarcocystis bertrami sporocysts after prepatent periods of 3 and 11 days, respectively. However, the dogs which were fed buffalo meat shed in their faeces I. ohioensis, I. canis and Hammondia heydorni oocysts with prepatent periods of 1, 1 and 7 days, respectively.