PULMONARY MICROSPORIDIAL INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH CML UNDERGOING ALLOGENEIC MARROW TRANSPLANT

Very few cases of human microsporidial infection have been reported. T he advent of AIDS has changed this. There is increasing recognition th at microsporidia are important opportunistic pathogens. However, the n umber of cases reported in the non-HIV population is small. We report here a case of microsporidial infection in a female patient with chron ic myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. There was also an associated fungal infection. The diagnosis could be reached only after postmortem and was confirmed by electron micrograp hy. We suggest that transplant patients are another group of patients who are susceptible to this group of opportunistic pathogens.