INTESTINAL AND EXTRAINTESTINAL ISOSPORA-BELLI INFECTION IN AN AIDS PATIENT - A 2ND CASE-REPORT

Authors
MICHIELS JF HOFMAN P BERNARD E SAINTPAUL MC BOISSY C MONDAIN V LEFICHOUX Y LOUBIERE R
Citation
Jf. Michiels et al., INTESTINAL AND EXTRAINTESTINAL ISOSPORA-BELLI INFECTION IN AN AIDS PATIENT - A 2ND CASE-REPORT, Pathology research and practice, 190(11), 1994, pp. 1089-1093
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Pathology research and practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
03440338
Volume
190
Issue
11
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1089 - 1093
Database
ISI
SICI code
0344-0338(1994)190:11<1089:IAEIII>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A 30-year-old black female, from Burkina Faso, had AIDS in 1990. She d ied in March 1993 following a cachexia secondary to a chronic intestin al isosporiasis. The autopsy revealed a massive parasitic infection by I. belli of the small intestine mesenteric and mediastinal lymph node s and liver and spleen. The parasite stage observed in extra intestina l sites corresponded to unizoite tissue cysts. This is the first repor t of I. belli infection in liver and spleen.