Is Lophomonas a Pathogen?
Editors in Conversation
English - February 23, 2024 21:48 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsLife Sciences Science Health & Fitness Medicine asm for fox interviews jeff magazine microbe microbiology news science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The protozoan Lophomonas has been reported to be a pathogen of humans in a large number of case reports and case series. Most of these case reports describe infections of the respiratory tract. Editors in Conversation is joined by two experts to discuss this possible parasite.
Some of the questions addressed include:
“Lophomonas as a respiratory pathogen—jumping the gun,” by Abhishek Mewara, Gillian H. Gile, Blaine Mathison, Huan Zhao, Bobbi Pritt, and Richard S. Bradbury (https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jcm.00845-23).
This episode of Editors in Conversation is brought to you by the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and hosted by JCM Editor in Chief, Alex McAdam and Dr. Elli Theel. JCM is available at https://jcm.asm.org and on https://twitter.com/JClinMicro.
Visit journals.asm.org/journal/jcm to read articles and/or submit a manuscript.