The disease is caused by a pathogenic protist that has somehow travelled thousands of miles to infect its hosts. The parasite in question is called Maullinia, and only a handful of studies have ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

There are four different types of pathogens that we’re going to discuss today: viruses, bacteria, fungi and protists. We’re going to start with viruses. A virus is a short length of DNA or RNA ...