Increasing Incidence of Mucormycosis in University Hospital, Belgium

Abstract

To determine why incidence of mucormycosis infections was increasing in a large university hospital in Belgium, we examined case data from 2000–2009. We found the increase was not related to voriconazole use but most probably to an increase in high-risk patients, particularly those with underlying hematologic malignancies.

Keywords

• Fungi
• invasive fungal disease
• incidence
• voriconazole
• hematologic neoplasms
• hematopoietic stem cell transplantation