Mucormycosis and Entomophthoramycosis (Zygomycosis)

摘要: Previously the term zygomycosis was used to refer infections caused by fungi belonging phylum Zygomycota, class Zygomycetes, orders Mucorales and Entomophthorales. However, a more recent classification based on molecular phylogenetic studies of rRNA, tef1, rpb1, has abolished Zygomycetes instead distributes previously in Zygomycota into Glomeromycota four subphyla, ­including Mucoromycotina, Kickxellomycotina, Zoopagomycotina, Entomophthoromycotina (Table 1) [1]. Therefore, zygomycosis, which been clinicians mycologists for decades, is no longer relevant fungal taxonomy. Both terms, mucormycosis are throughout this book, reflecting changes nomenclature slower evolution clinical parlance.