Simultaneous infection with two types of intestinal microsporidia in a patient with AIDS.
Open Access
- 1 March 1992
- Vol. 33 (3) , 418-420
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.33.3.418
Abstract
We report the first case of a non-Enterocytozoon bieneusi microsporidial infection in the small intestine of a European AIDS patient with diarrhoea. It is also the first case in which a double infection with two different types of microsporidia has been encountered.Keywords
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