Fungus
encephalitozoon
Subclass of:
Apansporoblastina
Definitions related to encephalitozoon:
  • A genus of FUNGI originally considered a member of the class SPOROZOEA but now recognized as part of the class MICROSPOREA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • A genus of single-celled microsporidian fungi in the family Unikaryonidae. Members of the genus are obligate intracellular parasites and were once thought to be protozoans or protists. Encephalitozoonosis is rare in healthy people, but it is a common cause of severe infections in immunocompromised individuals.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any fungal organism that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Encephalitozoon genus level.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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