Cerebral microsporidiosis due to Encephalitozoon cuniculi in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection

N Engl J Med. 1997 Feb 13;336(7):474-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199702133360704.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / parasitology*
  • Adult
  • Albendazole / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Anthelmintics / therapeutic use
  • Brain / parasitology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / parasitology
  • Encephalitozoon cuniculi / isolation & purification*
  • Encephalitozoonosis / drug therapy
  • Encephalitozoonosis / parasitology*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Urine / parasitology

Substances

  • Anthelmintics
  • Albendazole