Please watch this video abstract co-authored by one of my colleagues, Mark van der Giezen, about the search for suitable drug targets in...

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...

I want to thank for the many emails I get! Unfortunately, I cannot respond to each one of them, in part due to time limits, in part since...

It's time to bone up on my Portuguese! Off to XXVIII Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Protozoologia in Caxambu, Brazil tomo...

After spending more than 8 years in clinical microbiology with special reference to parasitology, I’ve come to realise that it truly is a ...

For those who like these pop-sci articles on the still somewhat conjecture-like but very inspiring theories about the role of our intestina...

In the "To Treat or Not To Treat" series (please look up previous post here ), we have come to the "...But How?"...

To quote one of my colleagues attending the recent IWOP 2012 meeting in Tarrytown, NY, Blastocystis subtyping in humans and animals is...

While we’re currently being flooded by papers on the intestinal microbiome, we still have very few dealing with the intestinal “micro-...

I've been writing this blog since late March, and today this blog was visited by viewer #10,000. I think that calls for a salute! And...