Mucormycosis is an increasingly common fungal infection with unacceptably high mortality. Growing numbers of immunocompromised hosts, widespread use of antifungal agents inactive against mucormycosis, or other unidentified factors, could be contributing to this situation. This article describes the recent updates in the management of mucormycosis. Mucormycosis refers to several diseases caused by infection with fungi in the order of Mucorales. Rhizopus species are the most common causative organisms.
Other mucormycosis-causing species include Mucor, Cunninghamella , Apophysomyces , Absidia , Saksenaea, and Rhizomucor . Mucormycosis is often characterized by hyphae growing in and around blood vessels. Most mucormycosis infections are life-threatening and risk factors such as diabetic ketoacidosis and neutropenia, present in most cases complicate it further. Mucormycosis carries a…
