In vitro culture, ultrastructure, antigenic, and molecular characterization of Encephalitozoon cuniculi isolated from urine and sputum samples from aSpanish patient with AIDS

Authors
del Aguila, C Moura, H Fenoy, S Navajas, R Lopez-Velez, R Li, LX Xiao, LH Leitch, GJ da Silva, A Pieniazek, NJ Lal, AA Visvesvara, GS
Citation
C. Del Aguila et al., In vitro culture, ultrastructure, antigenic, and molecular characterization of Encephalitozoon cuniculi isolated from urine and sputum samples from aSpanish patient with AIDS, J CLIN MICR, 39(3), 2001, pp. 1105-1108
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00951137 → ACNP
Volume
39
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1105 - 1108
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(200103)39:3<1105:IVCUAA>2.0.ZU;2-P
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 pati ent. We identified them as Encephalitozoon cuniculi, type strain III (the d og genotype), based on ultrastructure, antigenic characteristics, PCR, and the sequence of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region.