Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by organisms of the order Mucorales often occurring in diabetics or immunologically compromised patients. To date, only one case of primary mucormycosis of breast has been reported in the English literature. We describe a further case of mucormycosis that was localized to the breast in a patient with no underlying disease and was successfully treat...

Mucormycosis is a clinical entity attributed to opportunistic fungal infection of order Mucorales. This includes several pathogenic subtypes. It commonly affects the rhinocerebral sites and the immunocompromized patients with devastating results. Visceral mucormycosis is a relatively rare complication. We report the first free sigmoid colon perforation secondary to invasive mucormycosis and dis...

Some 340 isolates belonging to Mucorales, obtained from rhizosphere of root knot nematode host plants in ChaharMahal & BakhtiariProvince, were studied during 2003-5. Fourteen new taxa, namely, Absidia spinosa, Actinomucor elegans, Cunninghamella echinulata var. echinulata, C. echinulata var. nodosa, C. echinulata var. verticillata, Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides, M. circinelloides f. lu...

Genera of the order Mucorales (Rhizopus, Mucor, Rhizomucor, Absidia, Apophysomyces, Cunninghamella, and Saksenaea) cause an angioinvasive infection called zygomycosis. Mortality rates can approach 100% depending on the patient's underlying disease and form of zygomycosis. We report here on the unusual case of a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia and zygomycosis unresponsive to monotherapy ...

While surveying the diversity of fungi of the order Mucorales, two isolates, EML-PUKI12-1 and EML-PUKI06-1, were obtained from the gut of soldier fly larvae inhabiting the bulrush at a pond located in the Chonnam National University Arboretum, Gwangju, Korea. The isolates were confirmed as Mucor irregularis and Mucor fragilis species, respectively, based on the morphological characteristics and...

Mucormycosis is a rare type of fungal infection commonly known as zygomycosis, the tends to crop up more in individuals with low and weakened immunity level, if left untreated, mucormycosis can be life-threatening fatal. previously zygomycosis consequential caused by several mildews micromycetes. The revised taxonomical studies revealed that micromycetes causing infections are classified specie...

The antifungal susceptibility profiles of 77 clinical strains of Mucorales species, identified by internal transcribed spacer sequencing, were analyzed. MICs obtained at 24 and 48 h were compared. Amphotericin B was the most active agent against all isolates, except for Cunninghamella and Apophysomyces isolates. Posaconazole also showed good activity for all species but Cunninghamella bertholle...