mucormycosis

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From mucor (mouldy) +‎ mycosis (fungal infection). From translingual Mucorales, from Latin mucor (mustiness).

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mucormycosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucormycoses)

  1. (pathology, mycology) Any fungal infection caused by fungi in the order Mucorales.
    • 2015 November 11, “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a Leukemic Patient with Invasive Mucormycosis”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.

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