TY - JOUR
AU - Chamola, Vinay
AU - Mohammadi, Rasoul
AU - Nair, Harish
AU - Goyal, Adit
AU - Patel, Aarya
AU - Hassija, Vikas
AU - Bassetti, Matteo
AU - Narang, Pratik
AU - Paredes, Roger
AU - Santos, Jose R
AU - Hashemi, Seyed Jamal
AU - Sani, Mahnaz Pejman
AU - Shirani, Kiana
AU - Alijani, Neda
AU - Abtahi Naeini, Bahareh
AU - Pourazizi, Mohsen
AU - Abtahi, Seyed Hamidreza
AU - Khorvash, Farzin
AU - Khanjari, Mahdi
AU - Ahmadikia, Kazem
PY - 2022
DA - July
TI - COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Review of an Emergent Epidemic Fungal Infection in 3 Era of COVID-19 Pandemic
JO - Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
VL - 27
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.4103/jrms.jrms_1090_21
AB - At a time when the COVID-19’s second wave is still picking up in countries like India, a number of reports describe the potential association with rise in the number of cases of mucormycosis, commonly known as the black fungus. This fungal infection has been around for centuries and affects those people whose immunity has been compromised due to severe health conditions. In this article, we provide a detailed overview of mucormycosis and discuss how COVID-19 could have caused a sudden spike in an otherwise rare disease in countries like India. The article discusses the various symptoms of the disease, class of people most vulnerable to this infection, preventive measures to avoid the disease, and various treatments that exist in clinical practice and research to manage the disease.
PB - Wolters Kluwer
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/916d4ae1-e943-49fd-8171-b015a9080ab8
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER