Retrospective species identification of microsporidian spores in diarrheic fecal samples from human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS patients by multiplexed fluorescence in situ hybridization

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1255-1260

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a   Johansson, Michael A ^a   Tamang, Leena ^a   Visvesvara, Govinda S ^b   Moura, Laci S ^b   DaSilva, Alexandre J ^b   Girouard, Autumn S ^a   Matos, Olga ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 34247156040     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01975-06     Document Type: Article

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