Microsporidia as emerging pathogens and the implication for public health: A 10-year study on HIV-positive and -negative patients

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-205

  Lobo, Maria Luísa ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^b   Antunes, Francisco ^c   Matos, Olga ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; HIV seronegative populations; HIV infected patients; Human infecting Microsporidia; Molecular epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORIDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URINE; VITTAFORMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FECES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPUTUM; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

PORTUGAL;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; MICROSPORIDIA; VITTAFORMA;

EID: 84856494158     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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