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Mucormycosis: A Rare Fungal Infection in Patients Affected With Covid 19
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MALINI S, DR.A PASUPATHI
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Mucormycosis (also known as zygomycosis) is a severe but uncommon fungal infection caused by a fungus known as mucormycetes. Molds can be found all over the place. Mucormycosis is a fungal infection that mostly affects people who have health issues or who take medications that reduce the body's ability to combat germs and illness. Rhizopus species and Mucor species are the most common forms that cause mucormycosis. Rhizomucor species, Syncephalastrum species, Cunninghamella bertholletiae, Apophysomyces, Lichtheimia (formerly Absidia), Saksenaea, and Rhizomucor are some other examples. The COVID19, the disease rapidly spreading across the world, resulting in a worldwide pandemic, which vary from moderate to life-threatening pneumonia with bacterial and fungal coinfections.
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Mucormycosis, Covid 19, Black Fungus.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.03.148
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