Bharathi Arunan, Daizee Talukdar, Satish Swain, Ashwin Varadarajan, Radhika Sarda, Gagandeep Singh, Neeraj Nischal, Manish Soneja, Susmita Bakshi, Pradipta Jana, Subhash Tanwar, Kapil Sikka, Hitesh Verma, Arulselvi Subramanian, Immaculata Xess, Naveet Wig, Bhabatosh Das, Animesh Ray
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) associated mucormycosis (CAM) was reported predominantly from India during the second wave of COVID-19 and has a high mortality rate. The present study aims to understand the fungal community composition of the nasopharyngeal region of CAM-infected individuals and compare it with severe COVID-19 patients and healthy controls. The fungal community composition was decoded by analyzing the sequence homology of the internal transcribed spacer-2-(ITS-2) region of metagenomic DNA extracted from the upper respiratory samples...
April 2024: Journal of Medical Virology