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SUBMITTER: Cali A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3109663 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology 20101019 6
We describe a biopsy proven case of microsporidial infection of the false vocal cords in a 69-yr-old male with a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The patient had hoarseness for several weeks before his admission to the hospital for shortness of breath. He had received chemotherapy with fludarabine 6 wk before this hospital admission. A biopsy of vocal cord nodules demonstrated an organism that was identified as Anncaliia algerae by electron microscopy. Molecular analysis of the small sub ...[more]