Mahtab Ashrafi Khozani

Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - The effect of nanochitosans particles on Candida biofilm formation

Background and Purpose: In people wearing dentures, the growth of various Candida species under the prosthesis leads to the formation of biofilm, which can play the role of a reservoir for Candida and other kinds of microbes. Since nano-chitosan particles can cause lasting antimicrobial activity, a more recent approach that utilizes acrylic resins with nano-chitosan particles is proposed. Th...

[ 2 ] - Invasive Aspergillosis in COVID-19: A Review Study and Recommendations for Diagnostic Approaches

Background and purpose: COVID-19 is an emerging viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Bacterial or fungal superinfections of the lung may cause complications in clinical manifestations, treatment, and increase the mortality rate. In this article, we reviewed previous studies on invasive aspergillosis (IA) in viral infections and in adjustment with...

[ 3 ] - Mucormycosis: A Lethal Phenomenon in COVID-19 Patients: A Review of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seriously spread worldwide. One of the problems of COVID-19 patients is co-infection with other microbial infections such as fungal infections that are severely life-threatening. Mucormycosis, one of these opportunistic fungal diseases that is mistakenly known as black fungal disease, has been reported in Iran and the world. This non-systematic review is ...