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The article presents a summary of research presentations on Cryptosporidium at the International Workshops on Opportunistic infections in Lisbon, Portugal from June 20 to 24, 2006. Over 17 papers were presented which focused on chemotherapy, host/parasite interactions, epidemiology, genotyping, and molecular biology.

The article presents abstracts of the papers submitted at the annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists held at Lisbon, Portugal from June 20-24, 2006. They include "Studies of protistan diversity in Antarctica," "Antigenic variation in ciliates" and "Structure, evolution, and expression of Pneumocystis gene families that encode variable surface proteins."

The article provides a brief summary of the research presented at the 9th International Workshops on Opportunistic Protists which was held as a joint meeting with the 57th annual meetings of the International Society of Protistologists in Lisbon, Portugal from June 20 to 24, 2006. The author mentions the different topics in the research including the keynote speakers and themes of the workshops.

Studies Nematopsis gigas n. sp. from researchers from Oporto, Portugal. Discovery of a new species of Nematopsis; Affinity on the Brazilian Nerita ascencionis; Description of the new species from the mantle tissues of the seawater gastropod.