Simultaneous infection with two types of intestinal microsporidia in a patient with AIDS

C Blanshard; W S Hollister; C S Peacock; D G Tovey; D S Ellis; E U Canning; B G Gazzard

doi:10.1136/gut.33.3.418

Simultaneous infection with two types of intestinal microsporidia in a patient with AIDS

Gut. 1992 Mar;33(3):418-20. doi: 10.1136/gut.33.3.418.

Authors

C Blanshard¹, W S Hollister, C S Peacock, D G Tovey, D S Ellis, E U Canning, B G Gazzard

Affiliation

¹ AIDS Unit, Westminster Hospital, London.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / complications*
Animals
Humans
Intestinal Diseases / parasitology*
Male
Microscopy, Electron
Microsporida / isolation & purification*
Middle Aged
Protozoan Infections / etiology

Grants and funding

Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom