Multicenter Epidemiologic Study of Coronavirus Disease–Associated Mucormycosis, India
Atul Patel
1, Ritesh Agarwal
12, Shivaprakash M. Rudramurthy, Manoj Shevkani, Immaculata Xess, Ratna Sharma, Jayanthi Savio, Nandini Sethuraman, Surabhi Madan, Prakash Shastri, Deepak Thangaraju, Rungmei Marak, Karuna Tadepalli, Pratik Savaj, Ayesha Sunavala, Neha Gupta, Tanu Singhal, Valliappan Muthu, Arunaloke Chakrabarti
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MucoCovi Network3
Author affiliations: Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, India (A Patel); Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India (R. Agarwal, S.M. Rudramurthy, V. Muthu, A. Chakrabarti); Avaron Hospital, Ahmedabad (M. Shevkani); All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India (I. Xess); Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India (R. Sharma); St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, India (J. Savio); Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India (N. Sethuraman); Care Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad (S. Madan); Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi (P. Shastri); Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore, India (D. Thangaraju); Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India (R. Marak); All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India (K. Tadepalli); Venus Hospital, Surat, India (P. Savaj); Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (A. Sunavala); Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, India (N. Gupta); Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (T. Singhal)
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Figure 2. Cumulative number of mucormycosis cases during September–December 2019 and September–December 2020 in 10 health centers, India. White bar section indicates coronavirus disease–associated mucormycosis (CAM); black bar sections indicate non-CAM cases. During 2019, 112 cases of mucormycosis were detected, but a total of 231 cases, 92 non-CAM and 139 CAM, were detected in 2020.
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