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MICROSPORIDIA AND ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
Hospedeiro imunocomprometido
Patologia
AIDS
Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida
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Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine. Section of Parasitology. Hamburg, Germany.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Protozoologia. Laboratório de Imunomodulação. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Protozoologia. Laboratório de Imunomodulação. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Microsporidia is a common term that has been used to refer to a group of eukaryotic, obligate intracellular protozoan parasites belonging to the phylum Microspora. They are important agricultural parasites, contaminating commercial insects; they are also important by infecting laboratory rodents, rabbits and primates. Ever since the early cases found by Magarino Torres, who reported the presence of Encephalitozoon in a patient suffering of a meningoencephalomyelitis, some human pathology caused by microsporidia has been described. However, only after the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome outbreak have these organisms appeared as significant etiological agents in different pathologies. Even so, they remain underestimated. In the present article, the importance of microsporidia for the human pathology in immunocompromised host has been stressed.
Keywords in Portuguese
MicrosporidiaHospedeiro imunocomprometido
Patologia
AIDS
Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida
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