Despite being one of the most abundant organisms on the planet, fungi remain incredibly misunderstood. Remarkably adaptable and quick to thrive in new environments, pathogenic fungi are on the rise, ...

160 million years ago, this fungus pierced trees like a microscopic spear Date: June 8, 2025 Source: Science China Press Summary: In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of ...

Early tests suggest that an antibody-based therapy is safe, with no harmful effects on healthy cells, suggesting that it could be a promising treatment to help fight mucormycosis in people with ...

Antibody-based therapy several notches closer to treat lethal mucormycosis: Study Mucormycosis, a fungus infection caused by Mucorales, has a high mortality rates in those with weakened immune ...

Mucormycosis, a fungal infection caused by Mucorales, has high mortality rates in people with weakened immune systems and those suffering from severe trauma like burns, blast injuries or victims ...

Abstract Background: Prognosis in Mucormycosis is poor, secondary to the nature of such opportunistic angioinvasive fungal infection that affects immuno-compromised patients with uncontrolled diabetes ...

Rhizopus species are ubiquitous environmental saprophytic fungi that can cause cutaneous mucormycosis through trauma. Risk factors include uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, ...

A pulmonary biopsy revealed yeast and hyphae suggestive of mucormycosis (Figure 1D). Therefore, the patient was diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis. The patient had a poor prognosis and died 8 days ...

A diagnosis of mucormycosis was made by clinical-radiological suspicion and the visualization of broad branched aseptate fungal hyphae on histopathology specimen by fungal stains. (Figure 3A to 3D).

The present article describes a case of acute histiocytic leukemia treated with ACTH, prednisone and antibiotics whose course was complicated terminally by pulmonary mucormycosis. Although many ...

Pregnant mom caught COVID-19 and developed mucormycosis, a rare, often fatal fungal infection. Patients normally need surgery to treat it. But somehow she survived.

JAMA used a case report of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes to demonstrate correct and incorrect treatment choices.