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Abstract
Infection in humans and animals caused by fungi in the class Zygomycetes. It includes MUCORMYCOSIS and entomophthoramycosis. The latter is a tropical infection of subcutaneous tissue or paranasal sinuses caused by fungi in the order Entomophthorales. Phycomycosis, closely related to zygomycosis, describes infection with members of Phycomycetes, an obsolete classification.
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- Zygomycoses
- Entomophthoramycosis
- Phycomycosis
- Entomophthoramycoses
- Phycomycoses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
fungus dis caused by various Zygomycetes; for dis caused by Mucorales, MUCORMYCOSIS is available
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History Note
1999; use MUCORMYCOSIS 1989-1998
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- Mucormycosis (1975-1998)
- Mycoses (1976-1991)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Zygomycosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020096. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020096
- Zygomycosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomycosis
- Zygomycosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3046374