Two Encephalitozoon cuniculi strains of human origin are infectious to rabbits

Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-35

  Mathis, A ^a   Michel, M ^a   Kuster, H ^b   Muller C ^a   Weber, R ^b   Deplazes, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Encephalitozoon hellem; experimental infection; HIV infected patients; rDNA sequences; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MICROSPORA; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0031031601     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182096008177     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. BERCQUIST, N. R., STINTZING, G., SMEDMAN, L., WALLER, T. & ANDERSSON, T. (1984). Diagnosis of encephalitozoonosis in man by serological tests. British Medical Journal 288, 902.
2. CALI, A., KOTLER, D. P. & ORENSTEIN, J. M. (1993). Septata intestinalis N. G., N. Sp., an intestinal microsporidian associated with chronic diarrohea and dissemination in AIDS patients. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 40, 101-112.
3. CANNING, E. U. & LOM, J. (1986). The Microsporidia of Vertebrates. Academic Press, London.
4. DE GROOTE, M. A., VISVESVARA, G., WILSON, M. L., PIENIAZEK, N. J., SLEMENDA, S. B., DASILVA, A. J., LEITCH, G. J., BRYAN, R. T. & REVES, R. (1995). Polymerase chain reaction and culture confirmation of disseminated Encephalitozoon cuniculi in a patient with AIDS: successful therapy with albendazole. Journal of Infectious Disease 171, 1375-1378.
5. DEPLAZES, P., MATHIS, A., BAUMGARTNER, R., TANNER, I. & WEBER, R. (1996a). Immunologic and molecular characteristics of Encephalitozoon-like microsporidia isolated from humans and rabbits indicate that Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a zoonotic parasite. Clinical Infectious Disease 22, 557-559.
6. DEPLAZES, P., MATHIS, A., MÜLLER, C. & WEBER, R. (1996b). Molecular epidemiology of Encephalitozoon cuniculi and first detection of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in faecal samples of pigs. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (in the Press).
7. DIDIER, E. S., DIDIER, P. J., FRIEDBERG, D. N., STENSON, S. M., ORENSTEIN, J. M., YEE, R. W., TIO, F. O., DAVIS, R. M. & VOSSBRINCK, C. R. (1991). Isolation and characterization of a new human microsporidian, Encephalitozoon hellem (n. sp.), from three AIDS patients with keratoconjunctivitis. Journal of Infectious Disease 163, 617-621.
8. DIDIER, E. S., VOSSBRINCK, C. R., BAKER, M. D., ROGERS, L. B., BERTUCCI, D. C. & SHADDUCK, J. A. (1995). Identification and characterization of three Encephalitozoon cuniculi strains. Parasitology 111, 411-421.
9. FRANZEN, C., SCHWARTZ, D. A., VISVESVARA, G. S., MULLER, A., SCHWENR, A., SALZBERGER, B., FATKENHEUER, G., HARTMANN, P., MAHRLE, G., DIEHL, V. & SCHRAPPE, M. (1995). Immunologically confirmed disseminated, asymptomatic Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection of the gastrointestinal tract in a patient with AIDS. Clinical Infectious Disease 21, 1480-1484.
10. HOLLISTER, W. S., CANNING, E. U. & COLBOURN, N. I. (1993). A species of Encephalitozoon isolated from an AIDS patient: criteria for species differentiation. Folia Parasitologica 40, 293-295.
11. HOLLISTER, W. S., CANNING, E. U., COLBOURN, N. I. & AARONS, E. J. (1995). Encephalitozoon cuniculi isolated from the urine of an AIDS patient, which differs from canine and murine isolates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 42, 367-372.
12. KATIYAR, S. K., VISVESVARA, G. S. & EDLIND, T. D. (1995). Comparisons of ribosomal RNA sequences from a mitochondrial protozoa: implications for processing, mRNA binding and paromomycin susceptibility. Gene 152, 27-33.
13. MATHIS, A., ÅKERSTEDT, J., THARALDSEN, J., ØDEGAARD, Ø. & DEPLAZES, p. (1996). Isolates of Encephalitozoon cuniculi from farmed blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) from Norway differ from isolates from Swiss domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Parasitology Research (in the Press).
14. MATSUBAYASHI, H., KOIKE, T., MIKATA, I., TAKEI, H. & HAGIWARA, S. (1959). A case of Encephalitozoon like body infection in man. Archives of Pathology 67, 181-189.
15. SCHMIDT, E. C. & SHADDUCK, J. A. (1983). Murine encephalitozoonosis model for studying the host-parasite relationship of a chronic infection. Infection and Immunity 40, 936-942.
16. SHADDUCK, J. A., WATSON, W. T., PAKES, S. P. & CALI, A. (1979). Animal infectivity of Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Journal of Parasitology 65, 123-129.
17. TERADA, S., REDDY, K. R., JEFFERS, L. J., CALI, A. & SCHIFF, E. R. (1987). Microsporidian hepatitis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Annals of Internal Medicine 107, 61-62.
18. VAN DELLEN, A. F., STEWART, C. G. & BOTHA, W. S. (1989). Studies of encephalitozoonosis in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus pygerythrus) orally inoculated with spores of Encephalitozoon cuniculi isolated from dogs (Canis familiaris). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 56, 1-22.
19. WEBER, R., BRYAN, R. T., OWEN, R. L., WILCOX, C. M., GORELKIN, L. & VISVESVARA, G. S. (1992). Improved light-microscopical detection of microsporidia spores in stool and duodenal aspirates. The Enteric Opportunistic Infections Working Group. New England Journal of Medicine 326, 161-166.
20. WEBER, R., BRYAN, R. T., SCHWARTZ, D. A. & OWEN, R. L. (1994). Human microsporidial infections. Clinical Microbiology Review 7, 426-461.
21. ZENDER, H. O., ARRIGONI, E., ECKERT, J. & KAPANCI, Y. (1989). A case of Encephalitozoon cuniculi peritonitis in a patient with AIDS. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 92, 352-356.