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First report of Sarcocystis halieti (Apicomplexa) in bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) Prakas, Petras Estruch, Josep Velarde, Roser Ilgūnas, Mikas Šneideris, Donatas Nicolás-Francisco, Olga Marco, Ignasi Calero Bernal, Rafael Apicomplexa Sarcocystis Raptorial birds ITS1 Phylogeny Ciencias Biomédicas 24 Ciencias de la Vida At least three Sarcocystis species (S. falcatula, S. halieti and S. wobeseri–like) have been detected infecting raptorial birds. By histopathology and PCR-sequencing of the ITS1 marker, S. halieti was detected in a bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) and a black kite (Milvus migrans) from the Catalonia region in North Spain. The 241 bp-long sequences obtained from the Sarcocystis organisms detected in both raptors showed 97.5–99.6% and 97.9–100% similarity with those of previously identified S. halieti; also, the phylogenetic trees generated placed the identified sequences together with other sequences of S. halieti available in GenBank. In sum, the description of the bearded vulture as a new intermediate host for S. halieti adds new insights on the complex epidemiology of the genus involving avian hosts. Depto. de Sanidad Animal Fac. de Veterinaria TRUE inpress 2023-09-29T18:05:19Z 2023-09-29T18:05:19Z 2023-08-09 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88058 0165-7380 10.1007/s11259-023-10191-1 1573-7446 eng Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access application/pdf Springer-Nature