Disseminated microsporidiosis due to septata intestinalisin nine patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus: Response to therapy with albendazole

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 70-76

  Dore, Gregory J ^a   Marriott, Deborah J ^a   Hing, Michael C ^a   Harkness, John L ^a   Field, Andrew S ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BILIRUBIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DAPSONE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROGEN; PENTAMIDINE; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SECRETION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPUTUM; URINE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMAL; ANTHELMINTICS; DUODENUM; FECES; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGE; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; SPUTUM; URINE;

EID: 0029072398     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/21.1.70     Document Type: Article

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