Cavitary Pulmonary Zygomycosis Caused by Rhizopus homothallicus

Arunaloke Chakrabarti,Rungmei S. K. Marak,M. R. Shivaprakash,Sunita Gupta,Rajiv Garg,Vinay Sakhuja,Sanjay Singhal,Abhishek Baghela,Dixit Ak,Mandeep Garg,Arvind A. Padhye

Cavitary Pulmonary Zygomycosis Caused by Rhizopus homothallicus

2010

Arunaloke Chakrabarti
Rungmei S. K. Marak
M. R. Shivaprakash
Sunita Gupta
Rajiv Garg
Vinay Sakhuja
Sanjay Singhal
Abhishek Baghela
Dixit Ak
Mandeep Garg
Arvind A. Padhye

We report the first two proven cases of cavitary pulmonary zygomycosis caused by Rhizopus 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.

Keywords:

Microbiology
Histology
Rhizopus
Zygomycosis
Rhizopus homothallicus
Biology
Pathology

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