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Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Mycoses > Zygomycosis

Preferred term

Zygomycosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Entomophthoramycoses
  • Entomophthoramycosis
  • Phycomycoses
  • Phycomycosis

Note

  • fungus dis caused by various Zygomycetes; for dis caused by Mucorales, MUCORMYCOSIS is available

Scope note

  • Infection in humans and animals caused by fungi in the class Zygomycetes. It includes MUCORMYCOSIS and entomophthoramycosis. The latter is a tropical infection of subcutaneous tissue or paranasal sinuses caused by fungi in the order Entomophthorales. Phycomycosis, closely related to zygomycosis, describes infection with members of Phycomycetes, an obsolete classification.

History note

  • 99; use MUCORMYCOSIS 1989-98

In other languages

  • tsygomykoosi

    Finnish

  • entomoftoramykoosi
  • entomophthoramycosis
  • fykomykoosi
  • fykomykos UNS
  • mucormykos
  • mukormykoosi
  • määrittämätön tsygomykoosi
  • ospecificerad mucormykos
  • phycomycosis
  • phycomycosis NAS
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön fykomykoosi
  • zygomycosis
  • zygomycosis non specificata
  • Zygomykos

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020096

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