Prevalence of microsporidiosis due to Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon (Septata) intestinalis among patients with AIDS-related diarrhea: Determination by polymerase chain reaction to the microsporidian small-subunit rRNA gene

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1002-1006

  Coyle, Christina M ^b   Wittner, Murray ^b   Kotler, Donald P ^b   Noyer, Charles ^b   Orenstein, Jan M ^b   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^b   Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0029861525     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.1002     Document Type: Article

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