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. 2011 Nov 8;271(3):351–355. doi: 10.1016/S0934-8840(89)80034-9

Opportunistic Infections with Coronavirus-Like Particles in Patients Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus?

AM Eis-Hübinger 1,a, G Stifter 1, KE Schneweis 1
PMCID: PMC7135704  PMID: 2553042

Abstract

From 35 patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and belonging to various risk groups, 60 stool specimens were examined for the presence of Coronavirus-like particles (CVLP) using electron microscopy. CVLP were detected in 5 (8%) stool samples from 5 different patients (14%). Only one of the patients had diarrhoea. The five patients with CVLP-positive stools were all at advanced stages of HIV infection. The remarkable discrepancy between our data and another study, reporting a rate of 50% CVLP-positive HIV patients, most of them persistently shedding the virus, is discussed.

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