FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 335:1610-1611 November 21, 1996 Number 21 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited PubMed Citation

To the Editor: Disseminated microsporidian infections have been reported in several patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and hematologic dissemination is thought to be most likely.¹ We describe an HIV-infected patient with disseminated infection due to Encephalitozoon (Septata) intestinalis. DNA from the parasites could be amplified from various samples, including blood, by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

The patient was a 24-year-old homosexual man who had received a diagnosis of HIV infection in January 1995. In March 1996 he was admitted to our hospital because of diarrhea, a weight loss of 7 kg, abdominal pain, cough, and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Menotti, J., Cassinat, B., Sarfati, C., Liguory, O., Derouin, F., Molina, J.-M. (2003). Development of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Quantitative Detection of Encephalitozoon intestinalis DNA. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41: 1410-1413 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Franzen, C., Muller, A. (1999). Molecular Techniques for Detection, Species Differentiation, and Phylogenetic Analysis of Microsporidia. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 12: 243-285 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Ridoux, O., Drancourt, M. (1998). In Vitro Susceptibilities of the Microsporidia Encephalitozoon cuniculi, Encephalitozoon hellem, and Encephalitozoon intestinalis to Albendazole and Its Sulfoxide and Sulfone Metabolites. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 42: 3301-3303 [Abstract] [Full Text]