title: [Frequency of microsporidial Encephalitozoon intestinalis in patients with diarrhea].
abstract: Encephalitozoon intestinalis is an obligate intracellular sporeforming protozoa belonging to the order Microsporidia of the phylum Microspora. In the year 1923 Levadetia et al., using transmision electron microscopy, for the first time, identified microspridial organism, Encphalitozon intestinalis as causing acute diarrhea. Encephalitozzon-like spores were also found in cerebrospinal fluid in rabits. Three species have been identified in order Encephalitozoon firstly named Sepatata intestinalis and later renamed in Encephalitizon spp. by Didier. Thereafter, numerous reports have sugested that microspridial infections may be responsible for many cases of diarrhea esspecialy in patients with AIDS. Only rarely have microsporidial infections been found in non-HIV infected individuals. The aim of our study is to detect microsporidian protozoal parasite Encephalitozoon intestinalis as a cause of acute diarrhea in non HIV-infectid patients in Slovenia.
authors.affiliation: Kantonalna javna ustanova Domovi zdravlja Sarajevo.
authors.forename: Haris
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasanagić
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D016819:Encephalitozoon / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016890:Encephalitozoonosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male