Presently, the two most commonly used drugs for treating microsporidiosis in persons with AIDS are albendazole and fumagillin. Albendazole is effective for treating disseminated infections due to Encephalitozoon spp. but is variably effective against Enterocytozoon bieneusi infections. Fumagillin is highly effective when used topically to treat ocular infections with Encephalitozoon hellem or E...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Microsporidiosis is one of the emerging and opportunistic infections, which causing various clinical symptoms in humans. The prevalence of this infection varies, depending on the infected organ, diagnostic methods, and geographical conditions. In the present study, we aimed to investigate microsporidial keratitis in patients referring to Farabi Eye Hospital Tehran, Iran i...

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a common human pathogen, responsible for more than 90% of overall human microsporidian infections. The epidemiology of E. bieneusi infections, however, is not well studied, and little is known about its transmission routes. Enterocytozoon bieneusi-like spores have been reported in surface and ground water in the United States and France, and a possible outbreak of mic...

This is the report on a patient with chronic diarrhea caused by microsporidia. He is married, infected with HIV and has low CD4 cell count. The diagnosis was established through stool parasite search using concentration methods and Gram-chromotrope staining technique. Ileum biopsy was also performed in this case. The etiological diagnosis may be established in a clinical laboratory, by chromotr...

BACKGROUND Despite their wide occurrence, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis are considered neglected diseases by the World Health Organization. The epidemiology of these diseases and microsporidiosis in humans in developing countries is poorly understood. The high concentration of pathogens in raw sewage makes the characterization of the transmission of these pathogens simple through the genotyp...