TY - JOUR
AU - Molina, J. M.
AB - Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, Volume 17, 1998 743 tivity to penicillin, vancomycin, trimethroprim-sulfame- patients who are not infected with the human immu- thoxazole and erythromycin was tested in Mueller- nodeficiency virus (HIV). We report on a case of Ente- Hinton agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood rocytozoon bieneusi infection in an immunocompetent (Biomedics, Spain) using the disk-plate diffusion host who was not HIV-infected. system. The strain was sensitive to all antibiotics tested. No other microorganism was isolated from the The 15-year-old girl was referred to our institution in urethra. September 1997 with a 10-day history of fever and diarrhea. She had just returned from Cameroon. Her The couple was treated initially with a single dose of temperature on admission was 39.5 7C. She complained 250 mg ceftriaxone and, after the bacteriology results of headaches, tenesmus and non-bloody watery became available, with amoxicillin for 7 days. diarrhea with 5 to 6 liquid stools a day. Laboratory results revealed anemia with a haemoglobin level of Although the most probable means of transmission of 7.5 g/dl. Liver function tests were normal. A blood the organism would be by sexual contact, this could not smear was positive for Plasmodium falciparum. Blood 
TI - Microsporidiosis due to Enterocytozoon bieneusi Infection as a Possible Cause of Traveller's Diarrhea
JF - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology  Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1007/s100960050176
DA - 1998-11-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/microsporidiosis-due-to-enterocytozoon-bieneusi-infection-as-a-0N3iTRWMl0
SP - 743
EP - 744
VL - 17
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -