{"title":"Preliminary Planning for Mucormycosis in Developing Countries During COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"N. Shakrawal, M. Chouhan, B. Solanki","doi":"10.4274/tao.2021.2021-6-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic was formally declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30th January 2020. In India, an upsurge of rampant opportunistic infection of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) associated mucormycosis (CAM), along with the skewed second wave of the COVID-19, has been an issue of concern from May to July 2021. Suppressed immunity due to COVID-19 and its management has created more opportunities for invasive fungal coinfections in immunocompetent individuals.","PeriodicalId":44240,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology","volume":"59 1","pages":"302 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4274/tao.2021.2021-6-1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The coronavirus pandemic was formally declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30th January 2020. In India, an upsurge of rampant opportunistic infection of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) associated mucormycosis (CAM), along with the skewed second wave of the COVID-19, has been an issue of concern from May to July 2021. Suppressed immunity due to COVID-19 and its management has created more opportunities for invasive fungal coinfections in immunocompetent individuals.