Microsporidiosis
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Microsporidiosis is an opportunistic intestinal infection that causes diarrhea and wasting in immunocompromised individuals (HIV, for example). It results from different species of microsporidia, a group of microbial (unicellular) fungi.[1]
In HIV infected individuals, microsporidiosis generally occurs when CD4+ T cell counts fall below 150.
Microsporidia have emerged with significant mortality risk in immunocompromised individuals. These are small, single-celled, obligately intracellular parasites linked to water sources as well as wild, and domestic animals.[2] They were once considered protozoans or protists, but are now known to be fungi,[3] or a sister group to fungi.[4] The most common causes of microsporidiosis is Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon intestinalis.