Mucormycosis, past and present : a comprehensive review

Mucormycosis is an emerging opportunistic angioinvasive fungal infection. Predisposing factors such as diabetes, neutropenia, long-term corticosteroid therapy, solid organ transplantation and immunosuppression contribute to its occurrence. This disease was not of significant concern prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but gained prominence due to infections in COVID-19 patients. Mucormycosis needs special attention and coordinated efforts of the scientific community and medical professionals to reduce morbidity and mortality. Here we present an overview of the epidemiology and prevalence of mucormycosis in the pre- and post-COVID-19 eras, the factors that contributed to the abrupt increase in COVID-19-associated mucormycosis (CAM), the actions taken by the regulatory agencies (including Code Mucor and CAM registry), the existing diagnostic tools and CAM management strategies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Future microbiology - 18(2023) vom: 27. Feb., Seite 217-234

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gupta, Ishita [VerfasserIn]
Baranwal, Pritika [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Gagandeep [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Vandana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Angioinvasion
Black fungus
CAM
COVID-19-associated mucormycosis
Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Invasive fungal disease
Journal Article
Mucormycosis
Pathogenesis
Post-COVID-19 complications
Review
Treatment

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.04.2023

Date Revised 11.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2217/fmb-2022-0141

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354760394