Clinical pilot study: efficacy of triple antibiotic therapy in Blastocystis positive irritable bowel syndrome patients

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Dr CR Stensvold, Department of Microbiological Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark for providing ST1 specific primers, and Dr Linda Dunn, Queensland Insititute of Medical Research for donation of axenic cultures of Blastocystis subtypes Netski and WR1. This study was funded by the Royal Australian College of Physicians Murray-Will Fellowship for Rural Physicians (awarded to R. Nagel 2012).