Using Blastocystis as an example, we have only recently realised the fact that conventional diagnostic methods in many cases fail to dete...

This blog includes everything from updates on Blastocystis research, paper evaluations, polls, links, lab SOPs, to network opportunities an...

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

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

This blog was put up not even a month ago, and I'm happy to see that the blog has had more than 1,000 page views already! Main interest...

Intestinal parasites of humans can be divided into mainly helminths ('worms' including cestodes, nematodes and trematodes), and si...

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

For over a century, the clinical significance of Blastocystis has puzzled medical doctors scientists. After realising the extensive genetic...

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

I realise that output from my research ends up being read/noticed by only relatively few people compared to the number of individuals colon...