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  1. Rewilding reshapes gut microbiomes and parasite exposure in European bison: a 17‑month release from Wilder Blean

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, August 2026, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  2. Blastocystis and chronic urticaria: the evidence reviewed does not justify routine testing or treatment

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, May 2026, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  3. Livestock, Humans, and the Environment as Reservoirs of Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis: Evidence from a One Health Study in Türkiye

    Article • Applied Sciences, March 2026, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  4. The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, January 2026, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  5. Diet dominates, but biochar contributes: longitudinal effects of biochar supplementation on the beef cattle microbiome

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  6. A longitudinal intervention study on the impact of hardwood biochar on the lower gastrointestinal microbiome of UK beef cattle

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  7. Systematic review and meta-analysis of publicly available 16S datasets reveals weak habitat effects and a limited shared bacterial core in gut microbiomes of decapod crustaceans

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  8. The Blastocystis-colorectal cancer hypothesis: Correlation is not causation

    Article • Open Research Europe, December 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  9. Blastocystis in domestic mammals and poultry: from prevalence patterns to gut physiology

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, December 2025, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  10. Rethinking Blastocystis: ubiquity and cyclical abundance in the human gut

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, November 2025, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  11. Exploring Blastocystis and Gut Health: A Pilot Investigation of Microbiome and Metabolomic Signatures in a UK Cohort

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  12. Comprehensive Tools for Culturing Blastocystis: A Standardized Resource for Research and Diagnostics

    Article • Current Protocols, August 2025, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  13. Intestinal Microbial Eukaryotes at the Human, Animal and Environment Interface in Rural Iraq

    Article • Parasitologia, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  14. A protocol for mapping Blastocystis epidemiology and diagnostics from One Health perspective

    Article • Open Research Europe, June 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  15. A protocol for mapping Blastocystis epidemiology and diagnostics from One Health perspective

    Article • Open Research Europe, June 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  16. Effect of antibiotic administration on Blastocystis persistence and gut microbiome–metabolome dynamics in an irritable bowel syndrome longitudinal case study

    Article • Access Microbiology, June 2025, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  17. Intestinal Protozoa at the Human, Animal and Environment Interface in Rural Iraq

    Article • May 2025, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  18. Bridging lab and industry: The impact of a bio‐conversion unit on black soldier fly larvae production and microbiome dynamics

    Article • JSFA reports, May 2025, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  19. A protocol for mapping Blastocystis epidemiology and diagnostics from One Health perspective

    Article • Open Research Europe, May 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  20. <xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Effect of Antibiotic Administration on Blastocystis Persistence and Gut Microbiome-Metabolome Dynamics in an Irritable Bowel Syndrome Longitudinal Case Study &...

    Article • March 2025, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  21. Update on Blastocystis: highlights from the Fourth International Blastocystis Conference

    Article • Open Research Europe, March 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  22. <xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Effect of Antibiotic Administration on Blastocystis Persistence and Gut Microbiome-Metabolome Dynamics in an Irritable Bowel Syndrome Longitudinal Case Study &...

    Article • January 2025, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  23. Relationship between Blastocystis infection and clinical outcomes: A scoping review protocol

    Article • Open Research Europe, January 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  24. Update on Blastocystis: highlights from the Fourth International Blastocystis Conference

    Article • Open Research Europe, January 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  25. First nationwide investigation of Cryptosporidium species and gp60 subtypes in dairy cattle in Cyprus

    Article • Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, January 2025, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  26. Global prevalence of Cryptosporidium infections in cattle: A meta-analysis

    Article • Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, January 2025, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  27. Microbial and metabolic signatures among Blastocystis subtypes ST1-ST9 in xenic cultures

    Article • Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, January 2025, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  28. Epidemiology and transmission patterns of Cryptosporidium spp., and Giardia duodenalis within a One Health framework in rural areas of Eastern Algeria

    Article • Parasitology, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  29. Local High-Protein, Plant-Based Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Enhances Recovery from Malnutrition in Rats

    Article • November 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  30. <xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Effect of Antibiotic Administration on Blastocystis Persistence and Gut Microbiome-Metabolome Dynamics in Irritable Bowel Syndrome </xhtml:span>

    Article • October 2024, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  31. The impact of antibiotics on the presence of the protozoan anaerobeBlastocystisand the surrounding microbiome: a case study

    Article • July 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  32. Global Prevalence ofCryptosporidiumInfections in Cattle andC. parvum genotypedistribution: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • July 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  33. Advancing research on Blastocystis through a One Health approach

    Article • Open Research Europe, July 2024, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  34. Blastocystis: A Mysterious Member of the Gut Microbiome

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  35. The Cow Gutbiome CY Study: Investigating the Composition of the Cattle Gut microBIOME in Health and Infectious Disease Transmission in CYprus

    Article • January 2024, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  36. A cell-free strategy for host-specific profiling of intracellular antibiotic sensitivity and resistance

    Article • npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  37. Molecular Identification of Cryptosporidium spp., and Giardia duodenalis in Dromedary Camels (Camelus dromedarius) from the Algerian Sahara

    Article • Parasitologia, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  38. A cell-free strategy for profiling intracellular antibiotic sensitivity and resistance

    Article • April 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  39. Study of the economic impact of cryptosporidiosis in calves after implementing good practices to manage the disease on dairy farms in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands

    Article • Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Paul R Hunter, Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  40. Circulation and colonisation ofBlastocystissubtypes in schoolchildren of various ethnicities in rural northern Thailand

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  41. Circulation and colonisation of Blastocystis subtypes in schoolchildren of various ethnicities in rural northern Thailand – Erratum

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  42. Identification and Molecular Characterization of Four New Blastocystis Subtypes Designated ST35-ST38

    Article • Microorganisms, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  43. First Epidemiological Report on the Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Cryptosporidium spp. in Farmed Marine and Wild Freshwater Fish in Central and Eastern of Algeria

    Article • Acta Parasitologica, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Abdeldjalil Dahmane, Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  44. High Occurrence of Zoonotic Subtypes of Cryptosporidiumparvum in Cypriot Dairy Farms

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  45. High Occurrence of Zoonotic Subtypes of <em>Cryptosporidium parvum</em> in Cypriot Dairy Farms

    Article • January 2022, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  46. Metabolic Fluctuations in the Human Stool Obtained from Blastocystis Carriers and Non-Carriers

    Article • Metabolites, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  47. Repurposing in vitro approaches for screening anti-parasitic drugs against the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance, December 2021, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  48. Cross-Border Investigations on the Prevalence and Transmission Dynamics of Cryptosporidium Species in Dairy Cattle Farms in Western Mainland Europe

    Article • Microorganisms, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  49. Cross-border Investigations on the Prevalence and Transmission Dynamics of Cryptosporidium Species in Dairy Cattle Farms in Western Mainland Europe

    Article • October 2021, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  50. Prototheca bovis, a unicellular achlorophyllous trebouxiophyte green alga in the healthy human intestine

    Article • Journal of Medical Microbiology, September 2021, Society for General Microbiology

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  51. Establishing a Metabolite Extraction Method to Study the Metabolome of Blastocystis Using NMR

    Article • Molecules, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Jose Luis Ortega-Roldan

  52. Parasites, Drugs and Captivity: Blastocystis-Microbiome Associations in Captive Water Voles

    Article • Biology, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Angus I Carpenter, Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  53. Vestiges of the Bacterial Signal Recognition Particle-Based Protein Targeting in Mitochondria

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  54. A crowdsourcing semi-automatic image segmentation platform for cell biology

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, March 2021, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Md. Moinul Hossain

  55. Localization and Functional Characterization of the Alternative Oxidase inNaegleria

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  56. A comparative ‘omics approach to candidate pathogenicity factor discovery in the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  57. Naegleria gruberi plasmids v1

    Article • October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  58. The Symbiotic Spectrum: Where Do the Gregarines Fit?

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  59. Transfection of Naegleria gruberi v3

    Article • June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  60. NMR metabolomics reveals effects of Cryptosporidium infections on host cell metabolome

    Article • Gut Pathogens, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  61. Successful Genetic Transfection of the Colonic Protistan Parasite Blastocystis for Reliable Expression of Ectopic Genes

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  62. A Cell Culture Platform for the Cultivation of Cryptosporidium parvum

    Article • Current Protocols in Microbiology, February 2019, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  63. Past and future trends of Cryptosporidium in vitro research

    Article • Experimental Parasitology, January 2019, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  64. High diversity of Blastocystis subtypes isolated from asymptomatic adults living in Chiang Rai, Thailand

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, November 2018, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  65. The Human Gut Colonizer Blastocystis Respires Using Complex II and Alternative Oxidase to Buffer Transient Oxygen Fluctuations in the Gut

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, October 2018, Frontiers

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  66. Localization of Fe-S Biosynthesis Machinery in Cryptosporidium parvum Mitosome

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, July 2018, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  67. Identification and characterisation of a cryptic Golgi complex inNaegleria gruberi

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, March 2018, The Company of Biologists

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  68. A cell culture platform for Cryptosporidium that enables long-term cultivation and new tools for the systematic investigation of its biology

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  69. Genetic diversity of Blastocystis in non-primate animals

    Article • Parasitology, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Anastasios Tsaousis, Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Angus I Carpenter

  70. Identification and characterisation of the cryptic Golgi Apparatus in Naegleria gruberi

    Article • November 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  71. Report of the 2017 Protistology-UK Spring Meeting

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  72. Extreme genome diversity in the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis

    Article • PLoS Biology, September 2017, PLOS

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Laura Eme

  73. Metabolic changes of the host-pathogen environment in a Cryptosporidium infection

    Article • June 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  74. A Cell Culture Platform For Cryptosporidium

    Article • May 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  75. Transfection of Naegleria gruberi

    Article • April 2017, ZappyLab, Inc.

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  76. Acquired resistance to oxaliplatin is not directly associated with increased resistance to DNA damage in SK-N-ASrOXALI4000, a newly established oxaliplatin-resistant sub-line of the neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-AS

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Tobias von der Haar

  77. Evolutionary cell biology: functional insight from “endless forms most beautiful”

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, December 2015, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  78. A Nonmitochondrial Hydrogen Production in Naegleria gruberi

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  79. Evolution of the Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Machinery in Blastocystis Species and Other Microbial Eukaryotes

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Dr Laura Eme

  80. Evolution of Fe/S cluster biogenesis in the anaerobic parasite Blastocystis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  81. The Biochemical Adaptations of Mitochondrion-Related Organelles of Parasitic and Free-Living Microbial Eukaryotes to Low Oxygen Environments

    Article • August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  82. Stage-specific requirement for Isa1 and Isa2 proteins in the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei and heterologous rescue by human and Blastocystis orthologues

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2011, Wiley

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  83. A Functional Tom70 in the Human Parasite Blastocystis sp.: Implications for the Evolution of the Mitochondrial Import Apparatus

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Trevor Lithgow, Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  84. Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  85. Chapter 2 Predicting Proteomes of Mitochondria and Related Organelles from Genomic and Expressed Sequence Tag Data

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  86. A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi

    Article • Nature, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  87. Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron–sulphur cluster assembly proteins

    Article • Nature, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis

  88. Widespread Recombination in Published Animal mtDNA Sequences1

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis