Enterocytozoon bieneusi of animals—With an 'Australian twist'

Y Zhang, AV Koehler, T Wang, RB Gasser - Advances in parasitology, 2021 - Elsevier
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a microsporidian microorganism that causes intestinal disease
in animals including humans. E. bieneusi is an obligate intracellular pathogen, typically …

Gastrointestinal parasites in the immunocompromised

P Lewthwaite, GV Gill, CA Hart… - Current opinion in …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Parasitic infections remain a significant problem for immunocompromised individuals in
resource-poor settings, and further work is needed to develop accessible diagnostic tests …

Genomic Survey of the Non-Cultivatable Opportunistic Human Pathogen, Enterocytozoon bieneusi

DE Akiyoshi, HG Morrison, S Lei, X Feng… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most common microsporidian associated with human
disease, particularly in the immunocompromised population. In the setting of HIV infection, it …

Interaction of Cryptosporidium parvum with mouse dendritic cells leads to their activation and parasite transportation to mesenteric lymph nodes

G Perez-Cordon, G Yang, B Zhou, W Nie… - Pathogens and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are the antigen-presenting cells capable of activating naïve T cells.
Although CD4+ T cells are crucial for Cryptosporidium parvum clearance, little is known …

Chronic infections in mammals due to microsporidia

B Sak, M Kváč - Microsporidia: Current Advances in Biology, 2022 - Springer
Microsporidia are pathogenic organism related to fungi. They cause infections in a wide
variety of mammals as well as in avian, amphibian, and reptilian hosts. Many microsporidia …

Analysis of the β‐Tubulin Genes from Enterocytozoon bieneusi Isolates from a Human and Rhesus Macaque

DE Akiyoshi, LM Weiss, X Feng… - Journal of eukaryotic …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most common and clinically significant microsporidium
associated with chronic diarrhea and wasting in immunocompromised humans …

Laboratory diagnosis of microsporidia

K Ghosh, D Schwartz, LM Weiss - Microsporidia: Pathogens of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Microsporidia are a phylum containing over 1200 species. Since the mid‐1980s, these
organisms have been increasingly identified as agents of human disease in patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Investigations into microsporidian methionine aminopeptidase type 2: a therapeutic target for microsporidiosis

H Zhang, H Huang, A Cali, PM Takvorian… - Folia …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Microsporidia have been reported to cause a wide range of clinical diseases particularly
in patients that are immunosuppressed. They can infect virtually any organ system and …

Cryptosporidium parvum DNA Replication in Cell-Free Culture

L Zhang, AS Sheoran, G Widmer - Journal of Parasitology, 2009 - meridian.allenpress.com
The lack of robust methods for culturing Cryptosporidium parasites remains a major
challenge and is hampering efforts to screen for anti-cryptosporidial drugs. In existing culture …

Monoclonal Antibodies against Enterocytozoon bieneusi of Human Origin

AS Sheoran, X Feng, I Singh… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is clinically the most significant among the microsporidia infecting
humans, causing chronic diarrhea, wasting, and cholangitis in individuals with human …