Disseminated microsporidiosis due to septata intestinalis in patients with aids: Clinical features and response to albendazole therapy

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 245-249

  Molina, Jean Michel ^a   Oksenhendler, Eric ^a   Beauvais, Bernadette ^a   Sarfati, Claudine ^a   Jaccard, Arnaud ^a   Derouin, Francis ^a   Modaï, Jacques ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FECES; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROSPORA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEPTATA INTESTINALIS; SINUSITIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URINE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM; FECES; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URINE;

EID: 0028816496     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/171.1.245     Document Type: Article

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