Use of shotgun metagenomics for the identification of protozoa in the gut microbiota of healthy individuals from worldwide populations with various industrialization levels

Intestinal parasite infections in a rural community of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): Prevalence and genetic diversity of Blastocystis subtypes

(2018) Carolina Valença Barbosa et al.   PLoS One

Large-scale comparative metagenomics of Blastocystis, a common member of the human gut microbiome

(2017) Francesco Beghini et al.   ISME Journal

Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation—a benchmark of metagenomics software

(2017) Alexander Sczyrba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Distribution of Blastocystis subtypes isolated from humans from an urban community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(2017) Carolina Valença Barbosa et al.   Parasites & Vectors

New Technologies for Detection of Enteric Parasites

(2017) Una Ryan et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Epidemiological Aspects of Blastocystis Colonization in Children in Ilero, Nigeria

(2016) Casper S. Poulsen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Prevalence, risk factors for infection and subtype distribution of the intestinal parasite Blastocystis sp. from a large-scale multi-center study in France

(2016) Dima El Safadi et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Geographic distribution of human Blastocystis subtypes in South America

(2016) Juan David Ramírez et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Frequency and molecular characterisation of Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba dispar, Entamoeba moshkovskii, and Entamoeba hartmanni in the context of water scarcity in northeastern Brazil

(2016) Deiviane Aparecida Calegar et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

High occurrence of Blastocystis sp. subtypes 1–3 and Giardia intestinalis assemblage B among patients in Zanzibar, Tanzania

(2016) Joakim Forsell et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Gut microbiota related to Giardia duodenalis, Entamoeba spp. and Blastocystis hominis infections in humans from Côte d’Ivoire

(2016) Valerio Iebba et al.   Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Colonization with the enteric protozoa Blastocystis is associated with increased diversity of human gut bacterial microbiota

(2016) Christophe Audebert et al.   Scientific Reports

Development and Application of a Blastocystis Subtype-Specific PCR Assay Reveals that Mixed-Subtype Infections Are Common in a Healthy Human Population

(2015) Pauline D. Scanlan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of shotgun metagenomics sequence classification methods using in silico and in vitro simulated communities

(2015) Michael A. Peabody et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Blastocystis in Health and Disease: Are We Moving from a Clinical to a Public Health Perspective?

(2015) Lee O'Brien Andersen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

(2015) Nuala A. O'Leary et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

(2015)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Variation in Rural African Gut Microbiota Is Strongly Correlated with Colonization by Entamoeba and Subsistence

(2015) Elise R. Morton et al.   PLoS Genetics

World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis

(2015) Martyn D. Kirk et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?

(2015) Julius Lukeš et al.   PLoS Pathogens

PCR for enteric pathogens in high-prevalence settings. What does a positive signal tell us?

(2015) Hagen Frickmann et al.   Infectious Diseases

The Road to Metagenomics: From Microbiology to DNA Sequencing Technologies and Bioinformatics

(2015) Alejandra Escobar-Zepeda et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Molecular Epidemiology of Entamoeba: First Description of Entamoeba moshkovskii in a Rural Area from Central Colombia

(2015) Myriam Consuelo López et al.   PLoS One

Children of Senegal River Basin show the highest prevalence of Blastocystissp. ever observed worldwide

(2014) Dima El Safadi et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets

(2014) Alexander Lex et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Estimating coverage in metagenomic data sets and why it matters

(2014) Luis M Rodriguez-R et al.   ISME Journal

Diagnostic metagenomics: potential applications to bacterial, viral and parasitic infections

(2014) M. J. PALLEN   PARASITOLOGY

Communities of microbial eukaryotes in the mammalian gut within the context of environmental eukaryotic diversity

(2014) Laura Wegener Parfrey et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

An introduction to the analysis of shotgun metagenomic data

(2014) Thomas J. Sharpton   Frontiers in Plant Science

Variable geographic distribution of Blastocystis subtypes and its potential implications

(2013) Mohammed A. Alfellani et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Diagnosis and subtype analysis of Blastocystis sp.in 442 patients in a hospital setting in the Netherlands

(2013) Aldert Bart et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Genetic Diversity of Blastocystis in Livestock and Zoo Animals

(2013) Mohammed A. Alfellani et al.   PROTIST

Mixed human intra- and inter-subtype infections with the parasite Blastocystis sp.

(2012) Dionigia Meloni et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

(2010) Aaron R. Quinlan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Development and Evaluation of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Blastocystis Parasites in Human Stool Samples: Prospective Study of Patients with Hematological Malignancies

(2010) P. Poirier et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prevalence and Spatial Distribution of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar and Giardia lamblia among Schoolchildren in Agboville Area (Côte d'Ivoire)

(2010) Mamadou Ouattara et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Reassessment of the epidemiology of amebiasis: State of the art

(2009) Cecilia Ximénez et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

High prevalence of Entamoeba moshkovskii in a Tanzanian HIV population

(2008) David L. Beck et al.   ACTA TROPICA