Fulminant Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Recipient
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Fulminant mucormycosis in a renal transplant recipient.
Sir, Mucormycosis is an uncommon deep mycosis caused by eumycetes included in the Mucorale order that belong to the zygomycete class (1). Species of Rhizopus, Mucor and Absidia are the most frequently isolated zygomycotic fungi in human infected tissue (2). They can cause opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised host and in patients with underlying diseases such as diabetes mellitus or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Dermato-Venereologica
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0001-5555
DOI: 10.1080/000155500750012252