Table 2.

Demographic information for the 30 patients with microsporidia of 159 HIV-infected patients presenting to the S. P. Botkin Memorial Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, St. Petersburg, Russia

Patient ID	Age (yr)	Genderh	AIDS stagea	No. of CD4 T cells/μl blood	Specimen	Speciesb	Histochemistry resultc
							CW	MTB
1	26	F	A3	149	1	E. bieneusi	+	+
					2	E. bieneusi	+	+
					3	E. bieneusi	+	+
5	31	M	C3	42	1	E. cuniculi	−	−
					2		−	−
16d	30	M	B3	140	1	Microsporidium sp. 1e	−	−
58	27	F	B1	576	1		−	−
					2	Microsporidium sp. 2f	−	−
63	24	M	C3	4	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
					2	E. intestinalis	+	+
					3	NT	+	+
66	31	M	C2	450	1		−	−
					2		+	+
69	32	M	C3	47	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
					2	E. intestinalis	−	−
					3	E. intestinalis	−	−
70	45	M	C3	71	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
					2	E. intestinalis	−	−
					3		+	−
71	29	M	B3	26	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
					2		−	−
72	28	F	C3	100	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
73	24	F	C3	62	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
					2	E. intestinalis	+	+
76	36	M	B1	553	1		−	−
					2	E. intestinalis	−	−
77	24	F	C3	20	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
79	32	M	C2	379	1		+	+
80	33	F	B1	647	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
					2	E. intestinalis	+	+
81	28	M	B3	26	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
					2	E. intestinalis	+	+
114	32	M	C3	38	1	E. hellem	−	+
118	50	M	C3	11	1		NT	NT
					2	E. bieneusig	−	+
124	30	M	C3	92	1	E. cuniculig	−	−
137	26	M	C3	60	1	E. intestinalis	−	+
138	29	F	B2	463	1	E. intestinalis	+	−
139	55	M	C3	21	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
140	28	F	C3	180	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
141	30	F	C3	68	1	E. intestinalis	+	−
142	29	F	C3	31	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
					2		+	+
145	35	M	B3	50	1		NT	NT
					2		NT	NT
					3	E. intestinalis	−	+
152	29	M	C3	54	1	E. intestinalis	+	+
154d	57	M	C1	1,213	1	E. intestinalis	−	−
156	21	F	C3	49	1	E. intestinalis + E. cuniculig	−	+
					2		+	+
158	44	F	B3	74	1	E. intestinalis	−	−

^aThe stage of AIDS for each patients was based on the CDC scale (7).

^bMicrosporidian species in fecal specimens were identified by PCR and rDNA amplicon nucleotide sequencing. NT, not tested.

^cCW, calcofluor white, MTB, modified trichrome blue.

^dPatients who had received cART which was discontinued for more than 1 year at the time of testing for microsporidia.

^eGenBank accession number GQ408913.

^fGenBank accession number GQ408914.

^gDetected by PCR performed on specimens applied onto FTA cards only.

^hM, male; F, female.