In Vitro Culture, Ultrastructure, Antigenic, and Molecular Characterization of Encephalitozoon cuniculi Isolated from Urine and Sputum Samples from a Spanish Patient with AIDS
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- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 39 (3), 1105-1108
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.39.3.1105-1108.2001
Abstract
In this report we describe the cultivation of two isolates of microsporidia, one from urine and the other from sputum samples from a Spanish AIDS patient. We identified them as Encephalitozoon cuniculi , type strain III (the dog genotype), based on ultrastructure, antigenic characteristics, PCR, and the sequence of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region.Keywords
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