Editorial: Recent Advances in the Controversial Human Pathogens Pneumocystis, Microsporidia and Blastocystis

Front Microbiol. 2021 Aug 2:12:701879. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.701879. eCollection 2021.

Olga Matos^{1

2}, Lihua Xiao^{3

4}

¹ Medical Parasitology Unit, Group of Opportunistic Protozoa/HIV and Other Protozoa, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
² Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
³ Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou, China.

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Keywords: Blastocystis; Pneumocystis; diagnosis; epidemiology; microsporidia; opportunistic protists; therapy.

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