Introduction B. hominis is an inhabitant of the human intestinal tract. It is capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction by binary fission and of pseudopod extension and retraction. Morphology The ...

Blastocystis hominis appear as spherical to oval cyst-like structures. They vary widely in size (5 to 30 µm; usual range 8 to 10 µm), and typically consist of a central body, or ...