Thanks to Keith Jolley and colleauges, the PubMLST site now has a new look! Why not try and visit the Blastocystis section? It's availab...

My colleague, Dr Haitham Sedeeq Albakri (Assistant Professor at Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of...

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

ECCMID - the annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (hosted by ESCMID) is currently taking place in ...

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

Last year, we launched the Blastocystis Sequence Typing Home Page, which is a publicly accessible resource including two major facilitie...

When I speak to colleagues in and outside Europe and visit research portals and social media, including Facebook groups, I get the impressi...

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

Blastocystis is a sinlge-celled parasite. The parasite produces cysts (probably the transmissible form) and vegetative stages (including th...

If you are a student or young scientist interested in intestinal parasites and/or infectious disease/molecular epidemiology, why not take t...

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