ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2005
Zoonotic potential of the microsporidia.
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175 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 473 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- A systematic review of zoonotic enteric parasitic diseases among nomadic and pastoral people.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Parasitic diseases of marine fishes and their impact on human health: focus on the Egyptian biosphere: A review.Veterinary research communications · 2026Review
- Molecular Detection and Genotypic Analysis of Encephalitozoon cuniculi in Pet Rabbits in Central Thailand.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Article
- A New Host-Parasite Association: ALife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Encephalitozoonosis in Pet Rabbits: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Immunology and Consensus on Clinical Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Microscopic and Molecular Evaluation of Intestinal Microsporidia in Hemodialysis and Cancer Patients in Ilam Province.Journal of tropical medicine · 2026Article
- Seroprevalence ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Molecular Detection ofVeterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Identification of zoonotic pathogens in zoo animals in the Republic of Korea.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
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- Microsporidia in Rodents-Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- First molecular detection and multilocus genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi from pigs in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, Southern China.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Molecular Detection ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Molecular prevalence and genetic characterization of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in cattle in a dairy farm in Türkiye.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Digital PCR detection of microsporidia in household pipe water of patients with microsporidial keratitis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Chemical disinfection ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Genotypic analysis of zoonotic Enterocytozoon bieneusi in wild deer in Korea.Parasites, hosts and diseases · 2024Article
- Occurrence ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Microsporidia are long-known parasitic organisms of almost every animal group, including invertebrates and vertebrates. Microsporidia emerged as important opportunistic pathogens in humans when AIDS became pandemic and, more recently, have also increasingly been detected in otherwise immunocompromised patients, including organ transplant recipients, and in immunocompetent persons with corneal infection or diarrhea. Two species causing rare infections in humans, Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Brachiola vesicularum, had previously been described from animal hosts (vertebrates and insects, respectively). However, several new microsporidial species, including Enterocytozoon bieneusi, the most prevalent human microsporidian causing human immunodeficiency virus-associated diarrhea, have been discovered in humans, raising the question of their natural origin. Vertebrate hosts are now identified for all four major microsporidial species infecting humans (E. bieneusi and the three Encephalitozoon spp.), implying a zoonotic nature of these parasites. Molecular studies have identified phenotypic and/or genetic variability within these species, indicating that they are not uniform, and have allowed the question of their zoonotic potential to be addressed. The focus of this review is the zoonotic potential of the various microsporidia and a brief update on other microsporidia which have no known host or an invertebrate host and which cause rare infections in humans.
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