Latent microsporidial infection in immunocompetent individuals - a longitudinal study

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Sak, Bohumil ^a   Kváč, Martin ^a,b   Kučerová, Zuzana ^c   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Saková, Kamila ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Hospital Ceske Budejovice   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FECES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGUS SPORE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; SERUM; STAINING; URINE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; SERUM; SPORES, FUNGAL; STAINING AND LABELING; URINE;

EID: 79957975050     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001162     Document Type: Article

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