The camel (Camelus dromedarius) as an intermediate host for Hammondia heydorni.
Dogs fed raw camel meat containing two types of cysts shed unsporulated Hammondia heydorni oocysts and later sporulated Sarcocystis sporocysts in their feces, but were resistant to reinfection with the Hammondia cysts. Sporulated H. heydorni occysts did not induce an enteroepithelial cycle in dogs, but resulted in the formation of muscle cysts.
D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats; D003044:Coccidia / Q000502:physiology*; D003048:Coccidiosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000635:transmission; D004285:Dogs; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D008460:Meat; D009132:Muscles / Q000469:parasitology; D013170:Spores / Q000502:physiology