Invasive zygomycosis in India: experience in a tertiary care hospital

A Chakrabarti, SS Chatterjee, A Das… - Postgraduate …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aim To report the natural history and clinical course of zygomycosis from a single tertiary
care centre in India where doctors maintain an institutional zygomycosis registry. Methods …

The rising trend of invasive zygomycosis in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus

A Chakrabarti, A Das, J Mandal… - …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Zygomycosis is an emerging infection worldwide. A study was conducted to understand its
spectrum in the Indian scenario. All patients diagnosed for invasive zygomycosis at a tertiary …

Epidemiology and outcome of zygomycosis: a review of 929 reported cases

MM Roden, TE Zaoutis, WL Buchanan… - Clinical infectious …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background. Zygomycosis is an increasingly emerging life-threatening infection. There is no
single comprehensive literature review that describes the epidemiology and outcome of this …

Global epidemiology of cutaneous zygomycosis

A Skiada, D Rigopoulos, G Larios, G Petrikkos… - Clinics in …, 2012 - Elsevier
The large majority of cases reported worldwide as zygomycosis are infections caused by
fungi belonging to the order Mucorales. These infections are invasive, often lethal, and they …

Outbreaks of zygomycosis in hospitals

A Antoniadou - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Zygomycosis refers to a group of uncommon and frequently fatal mycoses caused by fungi of
the class Zygomycetes, the organisms of which are usually found in decaying organic …

[HTML][HTML] Zygomycosis in Europe: analysis of 230 cases accrued by the registry of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Working Group on …

A Skiada, L Pagano, A Groll, S Zimmerli… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Zygomycosis is an important emerging fungal infection, associated with high morbidity and
mortality. The Working Group on Zygomycosis of the European Confederation of Medical …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging invasive zygomycosis in a tertiary care center: epidemiology and associated risk factors

J Ambrosioni, K Bouchuiguir-Wafa, J Garbino - International Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Invasive zygomycosis is a rare fungal opportunistic disease with a high
morbidity and mortality rate, predominantly affecting immunosuppressed patients. Presented …

Invasive zygomycosis: update on pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and management

DP Kontoyiannis, RE Lewis - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2006 - id.theclinics.com
Zygomycosis encompasses a spectrum of infections caused by Zygomycetes, a class of
fungi that produce predominantly aseptate or pauciseptate, wide, irregularly branching …

Cerebral zygomycosis

C Sundaram, A Mahadevan, V Laxmi, TC Yasha… - Mycoses, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Fifty‐six patients with cerebral zygomycosis (mucormycosis) were seen during the period
1971–2001 in two tertiary care hospitals located in south India with tropical climate and …

Forty-one recent cases of invasive zygomycosis from a global clinical registry

MJGT Rueping, WJ Heinz, AJ Kindo… - Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Invasive zygomycosis accounts for a significant proportion of all invasive fungal
diseases (IFD), but clinical data on the clinical course and treatment response are limited …