Zoonotic potential of the microsporidia

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-445

  Mathis, Alexander ^a,c   Weber, Rainer ^b   Deplazes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Parasitology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLEISTOPHORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; VITTAFORMA; ZOONOSIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; RABBITS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOLA VESICULARUM; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HEXAPODA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22244487938     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.18.3.423-445.2005     Document Type: Review

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