For those interested in exploring the presence/absence of intestinal parasites in a gut microbiome context, Dr Mark van der Giezen and I di...

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...

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

Common parasites such as Blastocystis and Dientamoeba fragilis are often incriminated of causing chronic or intermittent diarrhoea o...

For some reason the "Flagyl" poll in the right side bar of this blog was reset; the number of votes was approaching 100. The qu...

In my opinion, in many cases we should "leave Blastocystis alone". In some cases, however, treatment may be warranted. However, c...

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