Diagnostic pathology of microsporidiosis

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-149

  Orenstein, Jan M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Encephalitozoon hellem; Encephalitozoon intestinalis; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; Microsporidia; Trachipleistophora anthropophthera; Trachipleistophora hominis

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MESENCHYME; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; SYMPTOM; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

EID: 0042671415     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120309938     Document Type: Article

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