FUNGAL RHINO SINUSITIS DURING COVID-19 ERA
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چکیده
Fungal rhino sinusitis is a life threating, aggressive, angioinvasive infection caused by group of fungai called mucormycetes and aspergillus as well1. Spores these are present in the soil, air decaying material animal dungs. They inhaled swallowed to cause infection. It affects mainly immune compromised patients like uncontrolled diabetes (fungus grows flourish at high sugar level), organ transplant individuals on long term steroid therapy2. Apart from Covid-19 fungal not contagious.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Saidu Medical College
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1819-4583']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52206/jsmc.2021.11.4.662