A CASE OF DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALITOZOON IN TESTINALIS MICROSPORIDIOSISIN AN AIDS PATIENT IN NIMES (FRANCE)

The pathogene's role importance of the microsporidia in nature is cons iderable. The human being, easily in contact, presents clinical manife stations only with some of them and in a very occasional manner. The i ncreased frequency of the immunodepression has permitted to describe r ecently a new protozoon, Encephalitozoon intestinalis (alias Septata i ntestinalis) of the family of the Glugeidae and the human illness of w hich it is the agent. This parasitose is interesting to be presented b ecause of its rarity and its circulation to organs far from one anothe r. The diagnostic has been done thanks to the only optic microscope an d confirmed from its visible efficacity of one cure of albendazole. Th e pyrimethamine could present a relative efficiency on a relapse of th e sinusitis.