Rhizopus microsporus and Mucor racemosus coinfection following COVID-19 detected by metagenomics next-generation sequencing: A case of disseminated mucormycosis
Mucormycosis is an invasive opportunistic fungal infection, which may be lethal and mostly affects patients with immunodeficiency or diabetes mellitus. Among Mucorales fungi, Rhizopus spp. is the most common cause of mucormycosis, followed by genera such as Mucor and Lichtheimia. Here we report a pa...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-02-01
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| Series: | Heliyon |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024018711 |