ABSTRACT
The Genus Blastocystis was first described from the faecal contents of animals by Alexieff
in 1911 and named Blastocystis enterocola, cyst of a flagellate and upon its isolation from
the faeces of humans the following year by Brumpt; it was re-named Blastocystis hominis
but classified as yeast and non- pathogenic in humans (Tan et al., 2002). As a result of the
ensuing confusion of unsettled taxonomy, Blastocystis spp. was not included in any of the
systematic classifications of the parasitic protist (Stenzel and Boreham, 1996). However,
Silberman et al., (1996) analyzed the conserved SSUrRNA gene of the parasite in
comparison to other eukaryotes to phylogenetically place Blastocystis in the informal group
Stramenopiles or Heterokont.
This single- celled eukaryote has been detected in faecal materials from various wild and
domesticated animals, birds, fishes and recently cockroaches (Abe et al., 2002; Yoshikawa
et al., 2007, 2009; Jones et al., 2009). Blastocystis is ubiquitous with a global distribution
(Windsor and Macfalane, 2005; Malheiros et al., 2011).
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