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Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium.

, 2019
Mucormycosis is a difficult to diagnose rare disease with high morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is often delayed, and disease tends to progress rapidly. Urgent surgical and medical intervention is lifesaving.
Lanternier, F., White, P.L., Patel, A., Groll, A.H., Klimko, N., Guinea, J., Pana, Z.D., Lagrou, K., Drgona, L., Sidharthan, N., Arikan-Akdagli, S., Pagano, L., Skiada, A., Arenz, D., Corzo-León, D.E., Lehrnbecher, T., Chen, SCA, Bonifaz, A., Singh, N., Dannaoui, E., Chayakulkeeree, M., Seidel, D., Colombo, A.L., Sheppard, D.C., Nucci, M., Jensen, H.E., Lewis, R.E., Vehreschild, J.J., Vehreschild, MJGT, Heussel, C.P., Seyedmousavi, S., Pasqualotto, A., Badali, H., Bretagne, S., Meletiadis, J., Ullmann, A.J., Al-Hatmi, AMS, Lass-Floerl, C., Maschmeyer, G., Alastruey-Izquierdo, A., Wahba, R., Ibrahim, A.S., Richardson, M., Hoenigl, M., Walsh, T.J., Mares, M., Steinbach, W., Ruhnke, M., Kanj, S.S., Mer, M., Chakrabarti, A., Lackner, M., Akova, M., Roilides, E., Lee, D.G., Racil, Z., Zaoutis, T., Hochhegger, B., Slavin, M., Lamoth, F., Lmimouni, B.E., Soman, R., Tan, B.H., Cornely, O.A., Sinko, J., Wiederhold, N.P., Ben-Ami, R., Oladele, R., Spellberg, B., Mellinghoff, S.C., Meis, J.F., Alanio, A., Castagnola, E., Morrissey, C.O.   +73 more
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Fatal and Rapid Progressive Isolated Cerebral Mucormycosis Involving the Bilateral Basal Ganglia: A Case Report

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Isolated cerebral mucormycosis is a clinical type of mucormycosis that is estimated to account for 8% of all mucormycosis cases. The clinical symptoms of isolated cerebral mucormycosis are elusive, and thus conventional techniques often lake sensitivity ...
Gao-jia Zhang, Shao-ke Zhang, Zan Wang, Yi-xin Zhu, Jun Kong, Li-li Huang, Yi-jing Guo, Yan-juan Wang, Rong-cheng Zou, Chun-ming Xie   +9 more
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Invasive mucormycosis in a tertiary care hospital in the western region of Saudi Arabia: 11-year retrospective chart review from 2009 to 2019

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2022
Background: Mucormycosis is a life-threatening, invasive fungal disease that mostly affects immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with mucormycosis in a tertiary care hospital in ...
Hassan Almarhabi, Essam Al-Asmari, Adeeb Munshi, Fayssal Farahat, Abdulfatah Al-Amri, Hatim Q. Almaghraby, Maher Alharbi, Abulhakeem Althaqafi   +7 more
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MUCORMYCOSIS: AN OVERVIEW

, 2021
Mucormycosis is termed as an angio-invasive fungal infection, connected with high morbidity and mortality. An alteration in the epidemiology of mucormycosis has been discovered in recent years with the rise in frequency, newfound causative agents and ...
Surushe C., Karpe M., Kadam V.
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Investigating the Hepcidin Gene Polymorphisms in COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis Susceptibility: A Clinical-Laboratory Study [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: Following the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak (COVID-19), it became a worrisome health burden worldwide. COVID-19-associated mucormycosis emergence, characterized by dysregulated inflammation and iron metabolism, exacerbated the prognosis ...
Reyhaneh Ravanbakhsh, Yalda Farhand, Fatemeh Ravanbakhsh Ghavghani   +2 more
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The hospitalization rate and clinical characteristics of mucormycosis prior and during COVID-19 pandemic: A single-center study

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2023
Introduction: There have been some reports of the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and mucormycosis. This study aims to compare the hospitalization rates and clinical characteristics of mucormycosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Mehrdad Estakhr, Zahra Ghotbi, Mahtab Rostamihosseinkhani, Etrat Hooshmandi, Masoud Janipour, Vahid Reza Ostovan, Nima Fadakar, Hanieh Bazrafshan, Zahra Bahrami, Abbas Rahimi-Jaberi, Maryam Poursadeghfard, Masoumeh Nazeri, Pariya Kouhi, Peyman Petramfar, Sadegh Izadi, Zohreh Barzegar, Ehsan Nikzadeh, Sarvin Sasannia, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Reza Tabrizi, Behzad Khademi, Mahsa Kohandel-Shirazi, Mohammad Saied Salehi, Nahid Ashjazadeh, Bijan Khademi, Mohammad Javad Ashraf, Owrang Eilami, Amir Roudgari, Mohsen Moghaddami, Kamiar Zomorodian, Hamid Badali, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi   +31 more
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Tracheal, laryngeal and pulmonary mucormycosis followed by organizing pneumonia in a patient with Adult Onset Still's Disease

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018
We report a case of tracheal, laryngeal and pulmonary mucormycosis in a patient receiving immunosuppressive medication for an autoinflammatory fever syndrome.
Fabian Leo, Michael Zeh, Annegret Prothmann, Oliver Kurzai, Sylke Kurz, Christian Grohé   +5 more
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Coronavirus disease 2019-associated mucormycosis of the head-and-neck area: A new rise of dreaded black fungus in the current pandemic

Journal of the Scientific Society, 2022
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently evolving and associated with more complications with invasive fungal infection like mucormycosis.
Santosh Kumar Swain, Pragnya Paramita Jena   +1 more
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An insight into the pathophysiology of mucormycosis: Lesson learnt during COVID pandemic

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Mucormycosis, a lethal fungal infection caused by Rhizopus oryzae, has gained significant attention due to its association with the COVID-19 pandemic. The causal relationship between COVID-19 and mucormycosis is not yet fully understood.
Sukanti Bhattacharyya, Samashaptak, Purushottam Chatterjee   +2 more
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Invasive splenic mucormycosis due to Rhizopus microsporus during chemotherapy for acute monocytic leukemia: a case report and literature review

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection associated with high mortality that typically occurs in immunocompromised patients. It is difficult to diagnose owing to non-specific clinical manifestations, the serologic index, imaging features ...
Xiru Peng, Zixiu Wei, Lijuan Wang, Juan Cheng, Juan Cheng   +4 more
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