Mucormycosis is an emerging opportunistic fungal infection. Increasing immunocompromization, widespread use of antibacterial and antifungal agents (such as voriconazole prophylaxis), carcinomas, transplantation and lifestyle diseases such as diabetes are the main contributors to this situation. The predominant clinical manifestations of mucormycosis vary from host to host, with rhino-orbital-ce...

The fungi on Meju are known to play an important role as degrader of macromolecule of soybeans. In order to elucidate the origin of fungi on traditional Meju, mycobiota of the air both inside and outside traditional Meju fermentation rooms was examined. From 11 samples of air collected from inside and outside of 7 Meju fermentation rooms, 37 genera and 90 species of fungi were identified. In ou...

During the past 2 decades, mucormycosis has become the third most common invasive fungal infection in patients with hematological malignancies and organ transplantations [1]. This life-threatening disease is caused by ubiquitous fungi in the order Mucorales, predominantly by Rhizopus species including R. delemar and R. oryzae. Other common causative organisms include species of Mucor, Lichtheim...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Lichtheimia and Scedosporium species are ubiquitous fungi associated with a range of clinical presentations. We report complex soft tissue coinfection caused by spp. following puncture wound rooster spur. Methods/Case Report A 60-year-old immunosuppressed man history heart transplant presented non-healing 2-months after sustaining lower leg secondary to The patie...

OBJECTIVES We analysed the in vitro and in vivo effects of posaconazole and amphotericin B against three clinical isolates of zygomycetes: Lichtheimia corymbifera, F1; and Rhizopus oryzae, F5 and F6. METHODS In vitro activities of both drugs were assessed by determining MICs, minimum fungicidal concentrations (MFCs) and fungal damage measured by the XTT assay against either the spores or the ...

Mucormycosis is an opportunistic infection caused by fungi of the order Mucorales, environmental nonseptate molds widely distributed in soil, plants, and decaying materials [1]. Mucormycosis can be divided into the following categories on the basis of the site of infection: rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, and disseminated [2-4]. The most common clinical presentation is rhinocerebral diseas...

BACKGROUND Mucormycosis has emerged as a rare but frequently fatal invasive fungal disease. Current knowledge on paediatric mucormycosis is based on case reports and small series reported over several decades. Contemporary data on a large cohort of patients is lacking. METHODS Two large international registries (Zygomyco.net and FungiScope™) were searched for mucormycosis cases in ≤19 year-ol...

A 116 infectious disease Rare fungal illness follows tornado More than 1,000 people were injured when a severe tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, on 22 May 2011, and 158 eventually died. 1 Within a few days of the tornado, several of the injured began to suffer from a fungal infection suspected to be cutaneous necrotizing mucormycosis. Doctors scrambled to do what they could, but testing ...

While the whole world is under attack of a second wave and more severe potent mutant form SARS CoV-2 virus causing SEVERE COVID 19 PNEUMONIA pandemic ,a new disease on verge getting declared as an epidemic named MUCORMYCOSIS OR BLACK FUNGUS (in common term). umbrella term used for opportunistic infection caused by several fungi belong to GLOMEROMYCOTAFAMILY(mucor, zygomucor,lichtheimia,syncepha...