Review Article
Epidemiology of Enterocytozoon bieneusi Infection in Humans
Table 2
Risk factors associated with Enterocytozoon bieneusi infection.
| Risk factor | Reference |
| HIV/AIDS | [45, 64, 82, 86, 104] | Low CD4+ T cells count | [86] | Younger age | [18, 45, 64] | Person-to-person transmission | [5, 19, 50, 54] | Injection drugs | [86] | Living in rural areas: contact with animals | [50] | Contact with cow dung | [50] | Contact with horses | [84] | Contacts with duck or chicken droppings | [48] | Having been stung by bees, hornets, or wasps | [84] | Food: watermelon consumption | [48] | Water | | Consumption of nonpiped water | [50] | Hot tub, spa, and occupational contact with water | [86] | Contact with ground, surface, ditch, and crop irrigation water sources | [33, 105–107] | Poor sanitation | | Lack of flush toilet | [48] | Lack of garbage collection | [48] | Lack of running water | [48] |
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