Adenovirus Infection of the Duodenum in an AIDS Patient: An Ultrastructural Study
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Ultrastructural Pathology
- Vol. 18 (6), 549-551
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01913129409021897
Abstract
Intractable diarrhea in a 40-year-old woman with terminal acquired immunodeficiency syndrome resulted from adenovirus infection of the duodenal mucosa. Electron microscopic examination of a duodenal biopsy specimen performed because of clinical suspicion of cryptosporidiosis or microsporidiosis showed pathognomonic viral particles in the nuclei of mucosal epithelium. Extensive sloughing of damaged mucosal cells may have contributed to the diarrhea, for which no other cause was found during either pathologic or microbiologic analysis.Keywords
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