Intestinal mucormycosis in a neonate: A case report and review

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a fungal disease that may rarely invade the gastrointestinal tract of newborn, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Clinically, it may be indistinguishable from the neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and the diagnosis is usually made on autopsy or histopathology of excised surgical specimen. We report a neonatal survivor of the illness.

Keywords

• Amphotericin B
• mucormycosis
• necrotizing enterocolitis
• neonate
• rhizopus