Open AccessCavitary Pulmonary Zygomycosis Caused by Rhizopus homothallicus
Author(s) -
Arunaloke Chakrabarti,
Rungmei S. K. Marak,
M. R. Shivaprakash,
Sunita Gupta,
Rajiv Garg,
Vinay Sakhuja,
Sanjay Singhal,
Abhishek Baghela,
Ajai Kumar Dixit,
Mandeep Garg,
A. A. Padhye
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01272-09
Subject(s) - zygomycosis , rhizopus , ribosomal dna , ribosomal rna , mucormycosis , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , mycosis , biology , pathology , phylogenetics , amphotericin b , immunology , genetics , antifungal , food science , fermentation , gene
We report the first two proven cases of cavitary pulmonary zygomycosis caused byRhizopus homothallicus . The diagnosis in each case was based on histology, culture of the causal agent, and the nucleotide sequence of the D1/D2 region of the 28S ribosomal DNA.