[Morphologic characteristics of digestive tract mucosa in virus infections]

Biopsies of mucous membranes of the alimentary canal in widespread viral infections (measles, chicken pox, HIV infection) in 17 to 40-year-old patients of both sexes were examined. Intracellular oedema and viral particles are found in the epithelial cells. The presence of membrane-granular structures in HIV-infection and their absence in other viral infections is of a different diagnostic importance.