Microsporidial AIDS cholangiopathy due to Encephalitozoon intestinalis: Case report and review

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2364-2371

  Sheikh, Rafiq A ^a   Prindiville, Thomas P ^b   Yenamandra, Sury ^b   Munn, Robert J ^b   Ruebner, Boris H ^b  

^a UC Davis Medical Group   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SPHINCTEROTOMY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BILE DUCTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0033834589     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(00)01126-6     Document Type: Article

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