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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2001, p. 1105-1108, Vol. 39, No. 3
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.3.1105-1108.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

In Vitro Culture, Ultrastructure, Antigenic, and Molecular Characterization of Encephalitozoon cuniculi Isolated from Urine and Sputum Samples from a Spanish Patient with AIDS

Carmen del Aguila,1,* Hercules Moura,2,3,4 Soledad Fenoy,1 Raquel Navajas,1 Rogelio Lopez-Velez,5 Lixia Li,2,3 Lihua Xiao,3 Gordon J. Leitch,6 Alexandre da Silva,3 Norman J. Pieniazek,3 Altaf A. Lal,3 and Govinda S. Visvesvara3

Universidad San Pablo-CEU1 and Hopital Ramón y Cajal,5 Madrid, Spain; Atlanta Research and Education Foundation,2 Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,3 and Morehouse School of Medicine,6 Atlanta, Georgia; and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro & HEC-FIOCRUZ, RJ, Brazil4

Received 19 October 2000/Returned for modification 27 October 2000/Accepted 29 December 2000

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 patient. We identified them as Encephalitozoon cuniculi, type strain III (the dog genotype), based on ultrastructure, antigenic characteristics, PCR, and the sequence of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales y Técnicas, Urbanización Montepríncipe, 28668 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34.91.372.47.96. Fax: 34.91.351.04.96. E-mail: CAGUPUE{at}CEU.ES.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2001, p. 1105-1108, Vol. 39, No. 3
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.3.1105-1108.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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