Clinical Features and Outcome of Mucormycosis
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Clinical Features and Outcome of Mucormycosis
Mucormycosis (MCM) is a life-threatening infection that carries high mortality rates despite recent advances in its diagnosis and treatment. The objective was to report 14 cases of mucormycosis infection and review the relevant literature. We retrospectively analyzed the demographic and clinical data of 14 consecutive patients that presented with MCM in a tertiary-care teaching hospital in nort...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1687-708X,1687-7098
DOI: 10.1155/2014/562610