Before heading off to visit dear colleagues at the Public Health Agency of Sweden tomorrow morning, I thought I'd do a quick 'Th...

Some August highlights in Blastocystis research: 1) The PRE-IOPCA Molecular Parasitology Workshop took place from the 7-10 August at...

Quite a few papers relevant to Blastocystis research have made it to PubMed over the past month! Therefore, the August version of '...

As mentioned, Blastocystis exhibits remarkable intrageneric diversity, which is continuously being explored by us and our colleagues. W...

I've tried to summarise a few facts here: Blastocystis is a single-celled, microbial parasitic protist colonising mainly the large...

There has been some confusion about Blastocystis " subtypes" and "genotypes".  Often, these two terms have been us...

All 9 subtypes (species) of Blastocystis found in humans so far have been found in other animals, and Blastocystis is proabably at least as...

Blastocystis is a micro-eukaryote , a so-called protist, parasitising the intestine of humans and a variety of animals. We estimate tha...