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 …

Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are an emerging problem worldwide with invasive candidiasis
and candidemia responsible for the majority of cases. This is predominantly driven by the …

Mucormycosis is an emerging angioinvasive infection caused by the ubiquitous filamentous
fungi of the Mucorales order of the class of Zygomycetes. Mucormycosis has emerged as the …

This fully revised and extensively expanded edition aims to illustrate the diversity of fungal
agents. Following introductory chapters on fungal classification, clinical pathology, natural …

Mucormycosis is an emerging cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in patients with
hematologic malignancies. However, there are no recommendations to guide diagnosis and …

SUMMARY Rhizopus, Mucor, and Lichtheimia (formerly Absidia) species are the most
common members of the order Mucorales that cause mucormycosis, accounting for 70 to …

Objectives Pulmonary mucormycosis (PM) is increasingly being reported in
immunocompromised patients and has a high mortality. Our aim was to assess the mortality …

The class Zygomycetes is divided into two orders, Mucorales and Entomophthorales. These
two orders produce dramatically different infections. Genera from the order Mucorales …

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 …

Zygomycosis, an infection that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, is
becoming common in immunocompromised patients. Posaconazole is a new extended …