Incidental Finding of Myxobolus Spores (Protozoa: Myxozoa) in Stool Samples from Patients with Gastrointestinal Symptoms
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Incidental finding of Myxobolus spores (protozoa: myxozoa) in stool samples from patients with gastrointestinal symptoms.
Myxozoan spores were detected in fecal samples from three patients presenting with abdominal pain and/or diarrhea. The spores were identical to those of Myxobolus plectroplites, a previously described pathogen from the freshwater fish Plectroplites ambiguus. All patients had recently eaten fish caught from local waters, and frozen fillets of such fish were found to be infected with M. plectropl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.12.3728-3730.1998