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...

Happy New Year! So, what's in store for us in 2014? Difficult to say, but as least I can try and say a little about what is going o...

For decades man has striven to improve sanitation and protect production animals and crops from infectious agents to prevent diseases in h...

Initiatives towards standardising diagnostic methods and convening on taxonomy and reference data is extremely important in a world whe...

Few commercial kits are available for detection of Blastocystis . One of them is the ParaFlorB kit developed by Boulder Diagnostics whi...

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...

As mentioned earlier, Dr Pauline Scanlan and I put together an opinion for Trends in Parasitology . This paper may possibly be one in a st...

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

It's difficult to say ' Blastocystis ' without saying ' Dientamoeba fragilis '. Both parasites tend to be extremely ...

I want to thank all the readers of this blog who all contribute to an increasing traffic across the site. I reckon I have between 200-400 p...