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Intestinal microsporidiosis in a HIV-seronegative patient
B Svenungsson1, T Capraru, B Evengård
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|October 28, 1998
Abstract:
Microsporidial infections have been increasingly reported in immunocompromised patients, particularly those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but only rarely in immunocompetent individuals. We report a case of intestinal microsporidiosis in a HIV-seronegative patient with acute self-limited diarrhoea. Examination of stool specimens revealed plenty of spores that correspond with Enterocytozoon bieneusi in size and shape as well as ultrastructural details.