Blastocystis in Health and Disease
This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Blastocystis is the most prevalent intestinal microbial eukaryote colonising the gut of humans and other animals. Despite numerous reports, the pathogenicity of Blastocystis remains controversial. Information on prevalence, geographic distribution, and host specificity of Blastocystis species/subtypes/strains is incomplete. Significant gaps also exist on the environmental presence of Blastocystis. Collectively, this paucity of data blurs the Blastocystis landscape considerably.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research and review manuscripts with a broad focus on Blastocystis and its potential functional role(s) in the gut microbiome. Topics on the biology, genomics, epidemiology, and ecology of Blastocystis are welcome. The aim of this Special Issue is to assemble a collection of manuscripts that synopsise the status quo of Blastocystis research.
Dr. Anastasios D. Tsaousis
Dr. Eleni Gentekaki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genomics
- microbiome
- epidemiology
- taxonomy
- subtyping
- evolution
- phylogenetics
- mitochondrion-related organelles
- anaerobicity
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Published Papers
Biology - ISSN 2079-7737