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correlated with clinical expression (e.g., asymptomatic disease, long-term carrier
state, irritable bowel-like symptoms, inflammatory bowel disease symptoms).
As a final point, it is important to avoid confusing Blastocystis with two
similar terms appearing elsewhere in this topic: blastomycosis and blastocyst.
Blastomycoses is a fungal disease (Ascomycota, Chapter 36), and blastocyst
is the hollowed embryonic body characteristic of animals (Overview of
Kingdom Animalia, Chapter 25). All three terms come from the root word
blastos (Greek for bud or embryo). Cystos (as in Blastocystis and blastocyst)
is the Greek root meaning sac.
Infectious species:
Blastocystis hominis (enteritis)
