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SUBMITTER: Nagel R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4537705 | biostudies-other | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nagel Robyn R Gray Christian C Bielefeldt-Ohmann Helle H Traub Rebecca J RJ
Parasitology research 20150522 9
Blastocystis spp. are common human enteric parasites with complex morphology and have been reported to cause irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Deconvolutional microscopy with time-lapse imaging and fluorescent spectroscopy of xenic cultures of Blastocystis spp. from stool samples of IBS patients and from asymptomatic, healthy pigs allowed observations of living organisms in their natural microbial environment. Blastocystis organisms of the vacuolated, granular, amoebic and cystic forms were observ ...[more]