Abstract:
Sarcocystoses (sarcosporidioses, sarcocystoses) are invasive diseases caused by protozoa — coccidia of the
genus Sarcocystis, the family Sarcocystidae. The main damage the disease causes livestock. Being localized in
the muscles and heart of intermediate hosts (cattle and small cattle, pigs) cause exhaustion, anemia, decreased
productivity and even death. In 1843, the German scientist Miescher first described characteristic intramuscular
formations in the skeletal muscles of a domestic mouse, believing that these were clusters of parasites of unknown
nature. Subsequently, similar formations in the muscles of other animals began to be described under
different names: “Misher's bags”, “Rhine bodies”, “psorospermia” (ie scabies sperm). It was only in 1882 that
Lankester began to call them meat cysts, or sarcocists, and proposed for their designation the corresponding
generic name — Sarcocystis. A change in the level of iron, zinc, total and ionizing calcium in pig blood was
observed during the clinical symptoms of sarcosporidiosis, when the disease is transmitted to the muscle. The
article analyzes the changes in minerals and the activity of enzymes in the blood.
