title: Opportunistic infections with coronavirus-like particles in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus?
abstract: From 35 patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and belonging to various risk groups, 60 stool specimens were examined for the presence of Coronavirus-like particles (CVLP) using electron microscopy. CVLP were detected in 5 (8%) stool samples from 5 different patients (14%). Only one of the patients had diarrhoea. The five patients with CVLP-positive stools were all at advanced stages of HIV infection. The remarkable discrepancy between our data and another study, reporting a rate of 50% CVLP-positive HIV patients, most of them persistently shedding the virus, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie der Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Eis-Hübinger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stifter
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Schneweis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003332:Coronaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003333:Coronaviridae Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology