Mucormycosis (sometimes called zygomycosis) is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes that mainly affect person:
Common type of mucormycosis in people with cancer and in people who have had an organ transplant or a stem cell transplant.
Gastrointestinal mucormycosis
Common among young children than adults.
Premature and low-birth-weight infants less than 1 month of age are at risk if they have had antibiotics, surgery, or medications that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.
This type of infection might occur after a burn, scrape, cut, surgery, or other types of skin trauma. This is the most common form of mucormycosis among people who do not have weakened immune systems.
Disseminated mucormycosis
Infection spreads through the bloodstream to affect another part of the body.
The infection most commonly affects the brain, but also can affect other organs such as the spleen, heart, and skin.
Diagnosis test
Tissue biopsy (small sample of affected tissue is analyzed in a laboratory for evidence of mucormycosis under a microscope or in a fungal culture)
Imaging tests such as a CT scan of your lungs, sinuses, or other parts of your body, depending on the location of the suspected infection.
Mucormycosis isn’t contagious, so you can’t get it from an infected person.
If one has the below infections and it has not cleared over the counter treatments and/or antibiotics, the medical doctor should consider the above condition especially if one has a weak immune condition or have a weak immune system or is taking weak immune causing medication for example corticosteroids.
If one has the below infections and it has not cleared over the counter treatments and/or antibiotics, the medical doctor should consider the above condition especially if one has a weak immune condition or have a weak immune system or is taking weak immune causing medication for example corticosteroids.
Please talk to your healthcare professional (i.e. Medical Doctor/Pharmacist) for further advice
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