[Microsporidiosis: a new protozoan disease in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)].
The list of infections, threatening patients with impaired immunological system, especially infected with HIV, prolongs systematically. Since early eighties many authors pay attention to little known type of protozoan: Microspora. More and more often new microsporidia species are described as a cause of disease, especially in patients with AIDS. We present review of literature data concerning species known up to now as pathogenic for man: Encephalitozoon cuniculi, Encephalitozoon hellem, Nosema connori and Nosema corneum, Pleistophora sp., as well as enteropathogenic for AIDS-patients-Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Septata intestinalis.
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Zakład Medycyny Rodzinnej Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
Kramarz
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D000818:Animals; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D016816:Microsporida / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016881:Microsporidiosis / Q000276:immunology*