2024年4月24日 · Cutaneous mucormycosis may be primary or secondary. Primary infection is usually caused by direct inoculation of the fungus into disrupted skin. It is most often seen in patients with burns or other forms of local skin trauma, and can occur in patients who are not immunosuppressed.

2024年5月8日 · You get cutaneous mucormycosis by getting the fungus in a break in your skin. It usually happens if you get a scrape or cut that forces fungi into the wound when you got it. This is the most common type of mucormycosis in people with healthy immune systems.

Cutaneous mucormycosis is an emerging fungal infection caused by opportunistic fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. It is frequent in poorly controlled diabetic patients and individuals with immunosuppression. It is usually acquired by direct inoculation through trauma.

Cutaneous mucormycosis is the third most common type of mucormycosis, following rhino-orbito-cerebral and pulmonary. We present here an update of its epidemiology, clinical features, predisposing risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment.

2023年6月12日 · Cutaneous mucormycosis presents in both primary and secondary disease. In primary disease, the skin infection results from direct inoculation and, in secondary form, by dissemination from other locations.

2024年4月24日 · Cutaneous (skin) mucormycosis can cause blisters or ulcers, and the infected area may turn black. Other symptoms include pain, warmth, redness, or swelling around a wound. Gastrointestinal (stomach and intestines) mucormycosis can cause abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and bleeding.

2019年3月13日 · Cutaneous mucormycosis tends to occur in patients who have significant contamination of skin wounds. Due to the angioinvasive nature of this fungus, infection can spread rapidly from the skin to deep tissue and bone.

2017年10月18日 · The fungus can also infect your skin via a cut or burn (cutaneous exposure). In such cases, the wound or burn ends up becoming the area of infection.

Cutaneous mucormycosis can be seen in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients but is the form of infection least likely to be associated with an underlying illness.

Although cutaneous mucormycosis is often opportunistic, cutaneous infections may develop in immunocompetent hosts if trauma results in contamination with fungal spores. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is usually severe and frequently fatal unless …