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mucormycosis

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mucormycosis [¦myü·kȯr‚mī′kō·səs]
(medicine)
An acute, usually fulminating fungus infection of humans caused by several genera of Mucorales, includingAbsidia, Rhizopus,andMucor.


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Sugar AM: Agents of mucormycosis and related species, In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R (eds): Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease, 5th ed.
The investigation was launched after a six-year-old with leukaemia died last year and two other patients were made ill in an outbreak of a rare fungal infection known as gastrointestinal mucormycosis.
 
 
 
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