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class Zygomycetes - class of fungi coextensive with subdivision Zygomycota

class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

subdivision Zygomycota, subdivision Zygomycotina, Zygomycota, Zygomycotina - division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores

Mucorales, order Mucorales - an order of mostly saprophytic fungi

Entomophthorales, order Entomophthorales - coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae

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Zygomycosis (also called Mucomycosis) is a generic term which refers to infections of the class Zygomycetes (also called Phycomycetes); they tend to be both opportunistic and invasive.

Systemic Mycoses: An Overview for Natural Health Professionals

Caption: Figure 3: Grocott-Gomori methenamine-silver (GMS) stained tissue section of resected lung from an 18-year-old with recent kidney transplant highlighting aseptate hyphae morphologically resembling fungal class Zygomycetes (400x).

Successful Treatment of Recurrent Pulmonary Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review

Mucormycosis is a saprophytic and ubiquitous fungi TO that belongs to class zygomycetes.TO It most commonly involves nasal and paranasal sinuses, brain and orbits.

Gastrointestinal mucormycosis of neonate masquerading as necrotising enterocolitis

Organisms of the Class Zygomycetes were first documented by Ribes et al in humans in 1800.

Mucormycosis of maxilla

Zygomycosis (also called mucormycosis) is a generic term that refers to infections of the class Zygomycetes (also called Phycomycetes); they tend to be both opportunistic and invasive.' It is defined as "Infection with tissue invasion by broad, non-separate, irregularly shaped hyphae of diverse fungal species." "Infection is most common in immunosuppressed persons, in patients with poorly controlled diabetes, and in patients receiving the iron-chelating drug desferrioxamine" (plus people on immunosuppressive therapies or who have chronic renal conditions).

Systemic mycoses: an overview for modern natural health professionals

Cunninghamella, which belongs to class Zygomycetes is able in metabolizing chlorpromazine (CPZ) and methdilazine (MDZ) to produce essential anti-stress compounds for humans.

Potential Antagonist Organisms against Poria hypolateritia of Red Root Disease in Tea Plantation