title: Changing prevalence of human microsporidiosis.
abstract: The frequency of publications about microsporidiosis, indexed in PubMed, was tracked on a yearly basis from 1980 to 2010. Search terms (individual and paired) of various degrees of restrictiveness were used (ranging from least restrictive: 'microsporidia', to most restrictive: 'microsporidiosis/HIV', 'microsporidiosis/AIDS'). The annual number of publications indexed under each search term(s) increased from the early 1980s until the mid 1990s. In subsequent years, there was a decline in numbers of publications retrievable via search terms emphasising human disease. This decline mirrors the declining prevalence of microsporidian infections in the HIV-infected population since the mid to late 1990s.
authors.affiliation: Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. martin.heyworth@va.gov
authors.forename: Martin F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Heyworth
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016814:Microsporidia / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D016881:Microsporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence