Mucormycosis, New Causative Agents, and New Susceptible Populations: Review of Cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Iran (2007-2021)
Ilad Alavi Darazam,
Abdolreza Babamahmoodi,
Mohammad Javad Ebrahimi
et al.
Abstract:Background: Mucormycosis is an aggressive opportunistic fungal infection that afflicts patients with severe underlying immunosuppression, uncontrolled hyperglycemia and/or ketoacidosis, iron overload, and occasionally healthy patients who are inoculated with fungal spores through traumatic injuries. The epidemiology of mucormycosis has changed after the COVID-19 pandemic, with mucormycosis becoming the most common and the fatal coinfection
Methods: In a retrospective, cross-sectional study, 82 hospitaliz… Show more
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