Cats and dogs are treated as family members by most pet owners. Therefore, a high quality
of veterinary care and preventive medicine is imperative for animal health and welfare and …

Simple Summary Blastocystis spp. are unicellular parasites that infect the gastrointestinal
tract of humans and animals. Their occurrence in the environment had been detected in …

Blastocystis is frequently reported in fecal samples from animals and humans worldwide,
and a variety of subtypes (STs) have been observed in wild and domestic animals. In …

Background Blastocystis is a common intestinal protozoa found in animal and human fecal
samples, with over 1 billion individuals infected worldwide. Since domestication, dogs and …

Background Blastocystis sp. is an anaerobic protozoan that parasitizes many animal hosts
and the human gastrointestinal tract, and its pathogenicity is controversial. Captive wildlife …

Intestinal parasitic infections have high prevalence rate in many regions especially in
developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine the presence and …

Simple Summary Enteropathogenic viruses, such as hepatitis E virus, and diarrhoeagenic
protists have been frequently reported in swine and can infect a wide range of mammals …

Animals such as rodents and birds may play a key role in the distribution of Blastocystis sp.,
either as introducers of the parasite into the water or as receptors of an infection already …

The intestinal parasite Blastocystis sp. is a widely distributed protist among humans and
various animal hosts, with significant prevalence in developing countries. Due to the …

Simple Summary Little information is currently available on the epidemiology of parasitic
and commensal protist species in captive non-human primates (NHP) and their zoonotic …