Successful treatment of Mucor circinelloides in a Burn patient

• Main Authors: Reham Abdelmonem (Author), Matthijs Backx (Author), Lorna Vale (Author), Brendan Healy (Author), David Williams (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mucormycosis is a rare disease, which has a poor prognosis among burn patients with a reported mortality of 40-88%. We report on the survival of a 54-year-old male patient with burns of 50% of his total body surface area (TBSA) who survived despite rapid deterioration following cutaneous and probabl...