MUCORMYCOSIS – AN EMERGING THREAT DURING COVID -19 OUTBREAK
Akshat Verma* and Diksha Chugh
ABSTRACT
Recently in 2019, a global pandemic that originated from Wuhan, China, has imposed serious threat to population all over the globe. This COVID outbreak has taken lives of many and is still a major reason of worry. Though the symptoms of the disease are very similar to flu and includes cough, fever, sore throat and shortness of breath, but all these may infect the lungs severely, costing the lives of the patients. A more recent finding has shown that there are other opportunistic fungal and bacterial infections, affecting the COVID positive patients. One of them studied is about Mucormycosis, black fungus infection. The clinical symptoms of this fungal infection include blackening of skin, ulcers, blurring of vision, necrosis, and many more. This review presents the pathophysiology and clinical pathogenesis of Mucormycosis, implications and risk factors involved in the fungal infection, and its clinical diagnosis. This review also confers about the treatment and preventive measures involved for Mucormycosis.
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