I look very much forward to the annual European Congress in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which this year will take place ...

Dullaert-de Boer and colleagues reveal data from a large case-control study in The Netherlands indicating that both #Blastocystis and #Dien...

If you're interested in reading my most recent paper Pinning down the role of common luminal intestinal parasitic protists in human...

What are your thoughts on Blastocystis carriage and age? More and more data suggest that the prevalence of Blastocystis carriage increas...

I'm actually going to skip the small review I do each month for a variety of reasons. Instead, I'm just going to upload a presentat...

In June there was a paper out in Frontiers in Microbiology by Laura W Parfrey and co-workers identifying the diversity of intestinal micr...

One of the current mantras in microbiology is that 'bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells 10 to one'. This has b...

Few commercial kits are available for detection of Blastocystis . One of them is the ParaFlorB kit developed by Boulder Diagnostics whi...

I feel like sharing data from a poster created by one of my colleagues, Dr Laura Rindom Krogsgaard who works at Køge Sygehus, Denmark. Sh...

Thanks to Google Scholar and PubMed feeds I can keep myself relatively up-to-date with emerging Blastocystis data and 'breaking news...

It's difficult to say ' Blastocystis ' without saying ' Dientamoeba fragilis '. Both parasites tend to be extremely ...

We recently published what could be seen as a pilot study on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the two most common intestinal parasites...

How strange the world of clinical microbiology is when you compare the fields of mycology, parasitology, bacteriology and virology ...