Mucormycosis, a potentially life-threatening fungal infection, is adding to India’s COVID-19-related death toll.
It typically affects patients recovering from COVID-19 who are immunocompromised due to COVID or by the use of steroids and/or concomitant diabetes.
“In the most common form, it colonizes the nose, the sinuses and the eyes, and from there it makes its way to the brain,” Sundaram Natarajan, MD, said in an interview with Healio/OSN.
Mucor is a mold commonly found in wet, damp areas, including soil, damp walls of old buildings, manure, and decaying fruits and