Table 2.

Parasites in raw meat based diets with their potential intermediate and final hosts along with summary of literature reported.

Parasite	Intermediate hosts	Definitive hosts	Sampling details	Literature available
Echinococcus granulosus	Domestic ungulates	Mostly dogs sometimes cats	N/A	N/A
Sarcocystis spp	Domestic ungulates	Dogs	35 Commercial frozen RMBD's	S. cruzi in 11% of diets based on bovine meat and S.tenella in 11% of diets based on bovine or sheep meat [13]
Toxoplasma gondii	Many mammals and birds	Domestic Cats	Frozen commercial BARF diet	6% samples positive for T. gondii [13]
Neospora caninum	Domestic ungulates as well as dogs	Dogs	Fresh raw meat	6 (37.5%) of the 16 seropositive (16 on 218 samples; 7.33%) bitches positive of N. caninum [55]
Cryptosporidium spp.	Vertebrate host (dogs, cats, humans and livestock) on consumption of contaminated food and water or contact with infected animal.	–	Commercial BARF diets containing raw bovine meat or raw turkey meat in canned food	2.11% of samples tested positive to Cryptosporidium spp. [65]
Trichinella. Spp	Two generations in the single vertebrate host (humans, pigs, horses acting both as definitive and potential intermediate host	–	N/A	N/A

N/A = Not Available.

(−) = No definitive hosts.