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Genetic aspects and environmental sources of microsporidia that infect the human gastrointestinal tract.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Jan 2017
Heyworth Martin F
Abstract excerpt
Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon intestinalis are microsporidia that infect the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Each of these microsporidia has been shown to infect various non-human hosts (mammalian and avian), raising the possibility of inter-species transmission, for example, from such hosts to human subjects via waterborne dispersal of microsporidian spores. During the past two decades, genome...
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