title: Outcome of mucormycosis after treatment: report of five cases.
abstract: Mucormycoses are serious infections caused by filamentous fungi of the order Mucorales. They occur most often in immunocompromised patients. We report five cases of mucormycosis in patients hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Department in Sousse - Tunisia between 2000 and 2013. They were 4 males and one female, mean age 60 years. Three patients were diabetic and one patient had acute leukemia. The locations of mucormycosis were rhinocerebral, rhino-orbital, auricular, pulmonary and cutaneous. The Mucorales isolated were Rhizopus arrhizus in 3 cases and Lichteimia in 2 cases. All patients were treated with amphotericin B and 2 patients had, in addition, surgical debridement. Two patients died and 2 kept peripheral facial paralysis.
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bellazreg
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hattab
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Parasitologie - Mycologie, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meksi
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mansouri
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hachfi
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kaabia
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Parasitologie - Mycologie, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ben Said
authors.affiliation: Service de Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Letaief
keywords: Amphotericin B; Lichteimia corymbifera; Mucormycosis; Rhizopus arrhizus; diabetes