I'm going to dedicate this post entirely to a recent case presented by my wonderful colleague Bobbi Pritt (Mayo Clinic) in collaboratio...

"Show me your gut bacteria and I'll tell you if you're infected with Entamoeba " One of my 'partners in crime'...

One of my readers sent me some videos of microscopy of some faecal preparations recorded on his iPhone and using a homemade and very cheap...

Just saw this on YouTube and had to share it. This is Blastocystis (and other microorganisms) viewed through a microscopy (light microscop...

Yesterday, I was checking up on a fresh Blastocystis culture. I loaded 20 µ L of the culture "sediment" on to a glass slide, pla...

I can tell especially from Facebook discussions that people across the globe wanting to know about their " Blastocystis status...

This year, Coyle et al. published a Clinical Practice paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a journal with a 5-year impact factor of almo...

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