Neural sarcocystosis in a straw-necked ibis (Carphibis spinicollis) associated with a Sarcocystis neurona-like organism and description of muscular sarcocysts of an unidentified Sarcocystis species.

A Sarcocystis neurona-like parasite was associated with acute sarcocystosis in the brain of an ibis (Carphibis spinicollis). Numerous schizonts and merozoites were found extravascularly in encephalitic lesions. These schizonts reacted positively with anti-S.