Asymptomatic COVID 19 infection: An innocent bystander in Mucormycosis or maybe not?

Shamsudeen M; Shahul Hameed C P; Liz Mary Paul; Lubna Abdul Azeez; Faris Hussain K N; Navaf K M

doi:https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijmr.2021.037

doi.org/10.18231/j.ijmr.2021.037

Asymptomatic COVID 19 infection: An innocent bystander in Mucormycosis or maybe not?

Shamsudeen M,

Shahul Hameed C P,

..., Navaf K M

Indian Journal of Microbiology Research

Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 182 - 184

Published: Jul 15, 2021

Abstract

We report a case of 48 year old male with past medical history of poorly controlled Diabetes mellitus, Chronic Liver Disease-child Pugh B who came with complaints of left frontal headache and left orbital pain. A clinical diagnosis of possible Rhinorbital Mucormycosis was made and further confirmed by potassium hydroxide (KOH) mount from tissue, which showed broad sparsely septate hyphae and fungal culture grew Rhizopus oryzae. Covid 19...