Molecular Detection of Eukaryotes in a Single Human Stool Sample from Senegal

Ibrahim Hamad , Cheikh Sokhna (1) , Didier Raoult (2, 1) , Fadi Bittar (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection

Background: Microbial eukaryotes represent an important component of the human gut microbiome, with different beneficial or harmful roles; some species are commensal or mutualistic, whereas others are opportunistic or parasitic. The diversity of eukaryotes inhabiting humans remains relatively unexplored because of either the low abundance of these organisms in human gut or because they have received limited attention from a whole-community perspective.

Mots clés: Trichosporon; Candida albicans; Polymerase chain reaction; Fungi; Eukaryota; Blastocystis; Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry; Sequence databases

Domaines: Mycologie; Parasitologie

Ibrahim Hamad, Cheikh Sokhna, Didier Raoult, Fadi Bittar. Molecular Detection of Eukaryotes in a Single Human Stool Sample from Senegal. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (7), ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0040888⟩. ⟨hal-01478657⟩