Rhizopus
"Rhizopus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of zygomycetous fungi of the family Mucoraceae, order MUCORALES, a common saprophyte and facultative parasite of mature fruits and vegetables. It may cause cerebral mycoses in diabetes and cutaneous infection in severely burned patients.
| Descriptor ID |
D012233
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.300.500.800
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Otto WR, Pahud BA, Yin DE. Pediatric Mucormycosis: A 10-Year Systematic Review of Reported Cases and Review of the Literature. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2019 Sep 25; 8(4):342-350.