Enterocytozoon bieneusi
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En·ter·o·cy·to·zo·on bieneusi
agent of microsporidian infection, primarily infecting the small intestine, especially in immunocompromised patients. It is the microsporidian most frequently reported in AIDS patients, in whom it has been implicated in chronic diarrhea and weight loss; suggested treatment has been with octreotide with albendazole.
See also: microsporidia.
See also: microsporidia.
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Enterocytozoon bieneusi
Parasitology The most common microsporidiosis of humans; in AIDS, E bieneusi infects the small intestinal mucosa, hepatobiliary tract, and is implicated in previously unexplained–ie pathogen-'negative' AIDS-related cholangitis; Pts with E bieneusi may be coinfected with Giardia lamblia. See AIDS-related cholangitis.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
En·ter·o·cy·to·zo·on bi·e·neu·si
(entĕr-ō-sītō-zōon bīĕ-nyūsī)Pathogen of microsporidian infection, primarily infecting the small intestine, especially in immunocompromised patients.
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