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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2001, p. 4495-4499, Vol. 39, No. 12
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4495-4499.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Zoonotic Potential of Enterocytozoon bieneusi

Bianca Dengjel,1 Monika Zahler,1 Walter Hermanns,2 Karl Heinritzi,3,dagger Thomas Spillmann,4 Angelika Thomschke,5 Thomas Löscher,5 Rainer Gothe,1 and Heinz Rinder5,*

Institute for Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology,1 Institute for Veterinary Pathology,2 Clinic of Internal Medicine II,3 and Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine,5 University of Munich, Munich, and Medical and Forensic Veterinary Clinic I, University of Giessen,4 Giessen, Germany

Received 30 July 2001/Returned for modification 4 September 2001/Accepted 17 September 2001

The reservoirs and the modes of transmission of the most frequent microsporidial species in humans, Enterocytozoon bieneusi, are still unknown. We have examined fecal samples of 26 humans and 350 animals from 37 species to find 18 samples containing this parasite from humans, cats, pigs, cattle, and a llama. Genotypic characterization of the internal transcribed spacer of the rRNA gene resulted in 14 different genotypes, 6 of them previously undescribed. Phylogenetic analysis revealed the lack of a transmission barrier between E. bieneusi from humans and animals (cats, pigs, and cattle). Thus, E. bieneusi appears to be a zoonotic pathogen.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Leopoldstrasse 5, D-80802 Munich, Germany. Phone: 49-89-21803618. Fax: 49-89-336112. E-mail: rinder{at}lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

dagger Present address: Veterinary Clinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2001, p. 4495-4499, Vol. 39, No. 12
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4495-4499.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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