Valliappan Muthu, Ritesh Agarwal, Sahajal Dhooria, Inderpaul Singh Sehgal, Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad, Shivaprakash Mandya Rudramurthy, Ashutosh Aggarwal, Arunaloke Chakrabarti
Mucormycosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is uncommon; notably, many cases have additional predisposing factors. Whether mucormycosis differs in HIV-affected individuals with and without additional risk factors (e.g., neutropenia, diabetes mellitus, and transplantation) remains unclear. In this systematic review, we identified 94 cases of HIV and mucormycosis classifiable into three groups: (1) HIV with additional risk factors (n = 50), (2) intravenous drug users (IVDU, n = 24), and (3) no other risk factor (n = 19) for mucormycosis...
July 27, 2023: Mycopathologia