MUCOROMYCOSIS: A DOUBLE BLOW TO THE COUNTRY AMIDST THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
| Autor: | null Dr. Ashok Kumar, Dr. Shivani Bansal , Dr. Urvashi Khan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results. :950-954 |
| ISSN: | 2229-7723 0976-9234 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: American pathologist R.D. Baker coined the term mucormycosis. Fungal infections are on a rise in the past 2 decades. It is defined as an insidious, broad aseptate ubiquitous fungal infection caused by members of mucorales and zygomcotic species.(1) It is colloquially termed as black fungus, when viewed through microscope it shows dark spherical spores and so the name. Earlier it was also known as zygomycetes, which means primitive fungi with broad, asepta including mucor, rhizopus, absidia and cunninghaemella. It is an opportunistic infection which is widely distributed in nature and predominantly in soil and thrives in dead and decaying substrates. It affects various organs involving the blood vessels causing thrombosis, infarction and necrosis of tissues and organs. As of 26th May 2021, India had noted approximately 12000 cases of mucor along with the Second wave of COVID 19, due to its fatality; it has become a notifiable disease under epidemic act.(2) |
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