Advances in the supportive care during the treatment of hematologic malignancies have improved the life expectancy of afflicted patients. However, this progress is increasingly at the expense of developing a wider range of infectious complications caused by drug-resistant organisms. The…
The disappearance of the class Zygomycetes from current taxonomy has made the term zygomycosis obsolete. The term zygomycosis encompassed both mucormycosis and entomophthoramycosis. These two infections are so different that no new name has been proposed to include both infections.…
Advances in the supportive care during the treatment of hematologic malignancies have improved the life expectancy of afflicted patients. However, this progress is increasingly at the expense of developing a wider range of infectious complications caused by drug-resistant organisms. The…