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Microsporidia are rare human opportunistic pathogens that are now increasingly recognised in patients with AIDS, most commonly as an ocular or enteric pathogen. This paper reports a case of microsporidial keratocon-junctivitis in a patient with AIDS which responded to treatment with dibromopropamidine isethionate ointment. The clinical and laboratory features of microsporidial ocular infection are reviewed.
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McCluskey, P., Goonan, P., Marriott, D. et al. Microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis in AIDS. Eye 7, 80–83 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1993.17
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