{"title":"Manifestations and risk factors of COVID-19 and mucormycosis: A mini-review","authors":"J. Sutradhar, Bapi Sarkar","doi":"10.4103/2221-6189.330739","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has become a pandemic disease. It also increases the risk of co-infections. Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infectious disease and its causative agent, mucormycetes, belongs to an opportunist fungus Mucoraceae family. Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients with mucormycosis presents an additional challenge worldwide. Mucormycosis shares certain risk factors and signs and symptoms with COVID-19. In this review, we summarize manifestations and risk factors of mucormycosis and COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":45984,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Acute Disease","volume":"10 1","pages":"221 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Acute Disease","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/2221-6189.330739","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has become a pandemic disease. It also increases the risk of co-infections. Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infectious disease and its causative agent, mucormycetes, belongs to an opportunist fungus Mucoraceae family. Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients with mucormycosis presents an additional challenge worldwide. Mucormycosis shares certain risk factors and signs and symptoms with COVID-19. In this review, we summarize manifestations and risk factors of mucormycosis and COVID-19.
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