Volume 11 (2024) | Issue 5
Volume 11 (2024) | Issue 5
Volume 11 (2024) | Issue 5
Volume 11 (2024) | Issue 5
Volume 11 (2024) | Issue 4
Mucormycosis is an opportunistic infection caused by several fungi belonging to phylum Glomeromycota. They are found ubiquitously in the soil and environment. They are classified under subphylum Mucoromycotina and Entomopthoromycotina. Mucormycosis caused by members belonging to subphylum Mucoromycotina, order Mucorales, is the most clinically important and includes the genera Lichtheimia, Mucor, Rhizomucor and Rhizopus species. It is a very rapidly progressive (because of its angioinvasive nature) thereby may prove fatal if timely diagnosis is not made entailing delay in institution of specific treatment. It presents as six clinical types Rhino-orbito-cerebral, Pulmonary, Cutaneous, Gastrointestinal, Isolated Renal and Disseminated Mucormycosis on the basis of anatomical site involved in a particular patient.[3]