The rising trend of invasive zygomycosis in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus

References

• Pagano L, Ricci P, Tonso A, et al. Mucormycosis in patients with hematological malignancies: a retrospective clinical study of 37 cases. Br J Haematol 1997; 99: 331–336
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ribes JA, Vanover-Sams CL, Baker DJ. Zygomycetes in human disease. Clin Micorbiol Rev 2000; 13: 236–301
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chakrabarti A, Das A, Sharma A, et al. Ten years’ experience in zygomycosis at a tertiary care centre in India. J Infect 2001; 42: 261–266
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roden MM, Zaoutis TE, Buchanan WL, et al. Epidemiology and outcome of zygomycosis: a review of 929 reported cases. Clin Infect Dis 2005; 41: 634–653
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perfect JR, Schelt WA. The new fungal opportunists are coming. Clin Infect Dis 1996; 22(Suppl. 2)S112–S118
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ponton J, Ruchel R, Clemous KV, et al. Emerging pathogen. Med Mycol 2000; 38(Suppl. I)225–236
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kontoyiannis DP, Wessel VC, Bodey GP, Rolston KV. Zygomycosis in the in a tertiary-care cancer center. Clin Infect Dis ; 30 1990s; 2000: 851–856
   Google Scholar
• Marr KA, Carter RA, Crippa F, Wald A, Corey L. Epidemiology and outcome of mould infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 34: 909–917
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marty FM, Cosimi LA, Baden LR. Breakthrough zygomycosis after voriconazole treatment in recipients of hematopoietic stem-cell transplants. N Eng J Med 2004; 350: 950–952
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Imhof A, Balajee SA, Fredricks DN, Englund JA, Marr KA. Breakthrough fungal infections in stem cell transplant recipients receiving voriconazole. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39: 743–746
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Diabetes mellitus. WHO. Geneva, World Health Organization, (updated 6 August 2005). Available from:, <http://www.who.int/tropics/diabetes_mellitus/en/-20k-6Aug2005 > .
   Google Scholar
• Diabetes India. Official site of Diabetes India. (2003). Available at:, , http://www.diabetesindia.com/-12k-2003.
   Google Scholar
• Gouzalez CE, Rinaldi MG, Sugar AM. Zygomycosis. Infect Dis Clin N Am 2002; 16: 895–914
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• McNulty JS. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: predisposing factors. Laryngoscope 1982; 92: 1140–1143
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Meyer RD, Rosen P, Armstrong D. Phycomycosis complicating leukaemia and lymphoma. Ann Intern Med 1972; 77: 871–879
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stave GM, Heimberger T, Kerkering TM. Zygomycosis of the basal gamlia in intravenous drug users. Am J Med 1989; 86: 115–117
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fong KM, Seneviratme EME, McCormack JG. Mucor cerebral abscess associated with intravenous drug abuse. Aust NZJ Med 1990; 20: 74–77
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Ibrahim AS, Spellberg B, Avanessian V, Fu Y, Edwards JE, Jr. Rhizopus oryzae adheres to, is phagocytosed by, and damages endothelial cells in vitro. Infect Immun 2005; 73: 778–783
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanchez MR, Wilson IJ, Moy JA, Rosenthal S. Zygomycosis and HIV infection. J Am Acad Dermatol 1994; 30: 904–908
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nosari A, Oreste P, Montillo M, et al. Mucormycosis in hematologic malignancies: an emerging fungal infection. Haematologica 2000; 85: 1068–1071
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karanth M, Taniere P, Barraclough J, Murray JA. A rare presentation of zygomycosis (mucormycosis) and review of the literature. J Clin Pathol 2005; 58: 879–881
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Chugh KS, Shakhuja V, Gupta KL, et al. Renal mucormycosis: computerized tomographic findings and their diagnostic significance. Am J Kidney Dis 1993; 22: 393–397
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chugh KS, Padhya AA, Chakrabarti A, et al. Renal zygomycosis in otherwise healthy hosts. J Mycol Med 1996; 6: 22–25
   Google Scholar
• Gupta KL, Joshi K, Sud K, et al. Renal zygomycosis: an under-diagnosed cause of acute renal failure. Nephrology dialysis Transplantation 1999; 14: 2720–2725
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Levy E, Bia MJ. Isolated renal mucormycosis: case report and review. J Am Soc Nephrol 1995; 5: 2014–2019
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weng DE, Wilson WH, Little R, Walsh TJ. Successful medical management of isolated renal zygomycosis: case report and review. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 26: 601–605
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sugar AM. Agents of mucormycosis and related species. Principles and Practices of Infectious Diseases4th edn, G Mandell, J Bennett, R Dolin. Churchill Livingstone, New York 1995; 2311–2321
   Google Scholar
• Chakrabarti A, Ghosh A, Prasad GS, et al. Apophysomyces elegans: an emerging zygomycetes in India. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 783–788
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar