Intestinal microsporidiosis is a common opportunistic disease associated with diarrhea in adult AIDS patients in Thailand; the data regarding this infection in children are scarce. The present study was designed to investigate the prevalence and clinical features of intestinal microsporidiosis in hospitalized HIV-infected and uninfected (free of HIV) children with diarrhea. Of the 95 HIV-infect...

Sir, Intestinal parasite infection, which is also one of the basic health problems in tropical region, is common in the HIV infected patients in tropical countries. The lack of sufficient antiretroviral therapy is mentioned among those patients (Wiwanitkit, 2001). In Thailand, human microsporidiosis has been sporadically reported since its first documentation (Pitisuttithum et al., 1995). In th...

Context: Microsporidiosis is an emerging disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis of human microsporidiosis challenging. Parasitological tests using staining methods have limitations for detecting spores stool samples. The performance molecular diagnosing satisfactory, but these are expensive time-consuming. Serodiagnosis the detection antibodies insufficient sp...

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an agent of intestinal microsporidiosis leading to malabsorption syndrome and diarrhea in AIDS patients. Respiratory tract microsporidiosis due to Encephalitozoon spp. has been reported. To date, however, only two cases of pulmonary involvement of E. bieneusi have been documented for patients with intestinal microsporidiosis. We report here another pulmonary localizat...

AIMS To detect intestinal microsporidiosis in paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens using a fluorescence technique incorporating optical brighteners. METHODS Eight HIV infected patients with confirmed intestinal microsporidiosis (six with Enterocytozoon bieneusi, one with Encephalitozoon intestinalis and one with Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection) and 10 without infection were studied. Tiss...

BACKGROUND Microsporidiosis is a life threatening opportunistic infection of AIDS patients. The infection is usually restricted to specific anatomical areas, but could become systemic depending on the involved species. Genital microsporidiosis in female patients is rare. OBJECTIVE To report genital microsporidiosis in female AIDS patients. METHODS Tissues samples from the genital tract (ova...

To determine the prevalence of intestinal microsporidiosis in HIV-infected patients, we performed a prospective study of HIV-infected patients with diarrheal illnesses in three US hospitals and examined an observational database of HIV-infected patients in 10 US cities. Among 737 specimens from the three hospitals, results were positive for 11 (prevalence 1.5%); seven (64%) acquired HIV through...

A chart review of 73 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with enteric microsporidiosis was conducted to define the natural history of microsporidiosis. A substantial proportion of patients remained symptomatic after 6 months (54.8% with persistent diarrhea and 51.2% with weight loss). Predictors for persistent diarrhea included high HIV RNA viral load and no initiation of prote...