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COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a form of β-Coronavirus of the Coronaviridae family, has been causing infection among humans worldwide leading to a pandemic emergency. New strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been evolving unceasingly, presenting with various systemic and oral ma...

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Autores principales: R, Roopa, Thanthoni, Malarkodi, Warrier, Aravind S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34306884
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15820
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a form of β-Coronavirus of the Coronaviridae family, has been causing infection among humans worldwide leading to a pandemic emergency. New strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been evolving unceasingly, presenting with various systemic and oral manifestations. There has been an increase in the incidence of secondary infection in the coronavirus infected individual either due to pre-existing factors or the virus by itself is causing such infection, which is still unclear. As it is already known, immunocompromised and uncontrolled diabetic patients have an increased chance of developing mucormycosis. Herein, we report a case who presented with a swelling in the left cheek, eye, and avascular necrosis intraorally, post COVID-19 infection.
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spelling pubmed-82955682021-07-23 COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient R, Roopa Thanthoni, Malarkodi Warrier, Aravind S Cureus Internal Medicine Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a form of β-Coronavirus of the Coronaviridae family, has been causing infection among humans worldwide leading to a pandemic emergency. New strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been evolving unceasingly, presenting with various systemic and oral manifestations. There has been an increase in the incidence of secondary infection in the coronavirus infected individual either due to pre-existing factors or the virus by itself is causing such infection, which is still unclear. As it is already known, immunocompromised and uncontrolled diabetic patients have an increased chance of developing mucormycosis. Herein, we report a case who presented with a swelling in the left cheek, eye, and avascular necrosis intraorally, post COVID-19 infection. Cureus 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8295568/ /pubmed/34306884 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15820 Text en Copyright © 2021, R et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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R, Roopa
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Warrier, Aravind S
COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient
title COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient
title_full COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient
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title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient
title_short COVID-19 Coinfection With Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient
title_sort covid-19 coinfection with mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34306884
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15820
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