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First report of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis after COVID-19 infection in Bulgaria.

Denis NiyaziBorislava TonchevaTsvetan TonchevDeyan L DzhenkovKalin KalchevTemenuga Stoeva
Published in: Future microbiology (2022)
Mucormycosis is a relatively rare infection but with a high mortality rate due to the difficult and time-consuming diagnostic and therapeutic process. The authors present the first case of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis, histologically and microbiologically proven, in a patient after COVID-19 infection in Bulgaria.
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