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Landmarks in the Discovery of Blastocystis Stages

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Blastocystis: Pathogen or Passenger?

Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs ((Parasitology Res. Monogr.,volume 4))

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This chapter represents a list of papers that were considered by the authors of this book as important “breakthroughs” in the knowledge of the different features in the history of the Blastocystis research during the last 101 years. Of course this is a selection, but due to space, others were not considered in this chapter, but belong to the basic knowledge collected in the other chapters of this book and are cited at the end of each chapter.

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  1. Institute for Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Heinz Mehlhorn

  2. Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Minoru Yamada

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan

    Hisao Yoshikawa

  4. Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Science Drive 2, Singapore, 117597, Singapore

    Kevin S. W. Tan

  5. Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Haris Mirza

  6. Blastocystis Research Foundation, 5060 SW Philomath Blvd, #202, Corvallis, OR, 97333, USA

    Kenneth Boorom

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    Heinz Mehlhorn

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Kevin S. W. Tan

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Mehlhorn, H., Yamada, M., Yoshikawa, H., Tan, K.S.W., Mirza, H., Boorom, K. (2012). Landmarks in the Discovery of Blastocystis Stages. In: Mehlhorn, H., Tan, K., Yoshikawa, H. (eds) Blastocystis: Pathogen or Passenger?. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32738-4_1

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