Enterocytozoon bieneusi as a cause of chronic diarrhea in a heart-lung transplant recipient who was seronegative for human immunodeficiency virus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 114-117

  Rabodonirina, M ^a   Bertocchi, M ^b   Desportes Livage, I ^b   Cotte, L ^b   Levrey, H ^b   Piens, M A ^b   Monneret, G ^b   Celard, M ^b   Mornex, J F ^b   Mojon, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DUODENUM MUCOSA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MICROSPORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROCONVERSION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 19244362896     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.1.114     Document Type: Article

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