Table 2.

 Percent similarity between ribosomal RNA internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS‐1) nucleotide sequences in the organism from the cat in this case and the 6 Sarcocystis sp. sequences (GenBank Accession No.) with the highest identity scores using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (NCBI).

	Cat, clone 1	Cat, c lone 2	S. dasypi (AY082631)	S. dasypi (AY082632)	S. dasypi (AY082633)	S. neurona (AY082644)	S. neurona (AY009113)	S. neurona (AF252407)	S. felis (AY190081)	S. felis (AY190082)
Cat, clone 1	100	99.7	99.9	99.9	99.8	99.8	99.5	99.5	44.8	45.5
Cat, clone 2		100	99.7	99.7	99.6	99.6	99.3	99.3	45.1	44.8
S. dasypi (AY082631)			100	100 *	99.9	99.9	99.6	99.6	45.6	46.4
S. dasypi (AY082632)				100	99.9	99.9	99.6	99.6	45.6	46.4
S. dasypi (AY082633)					100	99.8	99.5	99.5	44.8	45.3
S. neurona (AY082644)						100	99.5	99.5	44.9	45.6
S. neurona (AY009113)							100	100†	44.8	45.2
S. neurona (AF252407)								100	44.8	45.2
S. felis (AY190081)									100	97.9
S. felis (AY190082)										100

^* Between 2 cloned sequences from the same isolate.

^† †Between isolate sequences from 2 different hosts.

Similarity with S. felis ITS‐1 sequences are shown for comparison.