Opportunistic mycoses in COVID-19 patients/survivors: Epidemic inside a pandemic
- Title
- Opportunistic mycoses in COVID-19 patients/survivors: Epidemic inside a pandemic
- Creator
- Kuchi Bhotla H.; Balasubramanian B.; Meyyazhagan A.; Pushparaj K.; Easwaran M.; Pappusamy M.; Alwin Robert A.; Arumugam V.A.; Tsibizova V.; Msaad Alfalih A.; Aljowaie R.M.; Saravanan M.; Di Renzo G.C.
- Description
- Being considered minor vexations, fungal infections hinder the life of about 15% of the world population superficially, with rare threats to life in case of invasive sepsis. A significant rise in the intrusive mycoses due to machiavellian fungal species is observed over the years due to increased pathology and fatality in people battling life-threatening diseases. Individuals undergoing therapy with immune suppressive drugs plus recovering from viral infections have shown to develop fungal sepsis as secondary infections while recovering or after. Currently, the whole world is fighting against the fright of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and corticosteroids being the primitive therapeutic to combat the COVID-19 inflammation, leads to an immune-compromised state, thereby allowing the not so harmful fungi to violate the immune barrier and flourish in the host. A wide range of fungal co-infection is observed in the survivors and patients of COVID-19. Fungal species of Candida, Aspergillus and Mucorales, are burdening the lives of COVID-19 patients/survivors in the form of Yellow/Green, White and Black fungus. This is the first article of its kind to assemble note on fungal infections seen in the current human health scenario till date and provides a strong message to the clinicians, researchers and physicians around the world non-pathological fungus should not be dismissed as contaminants, they can quell immunocompromised hosts. 2021
- Source
- Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol-14, No. 11, pp. 1720-1726.
- Date
- 2021-01-01
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- Corticosteroids; COVID-19; Immunosuppressed; Intrusive fungus; Sepsis
- Coverage
- Kuchi Bhotla H., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560029, India; Balasubramanian B., Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, South Korea; Meyyazhagan A., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560029, India, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre for Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; Pushparaj K., Department of Zoology, School of Biosciences, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, 641 043, Tamil Nadu, India; Easwaran M., Computational Biology Lab, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India; Pappusamy M., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560029, India; Alwin Robert A., Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Arumugam V.A., Medical Genetics and Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641046, Tamil Nadu, India; Tsibizova V., Institute of Perinatology and Pediatrics, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation; Msaad Alfalih A., Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O Box 24552, Riyadh, 11495, Saudi Arabia; Aljowaie R.M., Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O Box 24552, Riyadh, 11495, Saudi Arabia; Saravanan M., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, College of Health Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, 1871, Ethiopia, Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha Dental College, Chennai, 600077, Tamil Nadu, India; Di Renzo G.C., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre for Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- Rights
- All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 18760341; PubMed ID: 34700291
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Review
Collection
Citation
Kuchi Bhotla H.; Balasubramanian B.; Meyyazhagan A.; Pushparaj K.; Easwaran M.; Pappusamy M.; Alwin Robert A.; Arumugam V.A.; Tsibizova V.; Msaad Alfalih A.; Aljowaie R.M.; Saravanan M.; Di Renzo G.C., “Opportunistic mycoses in COVID-19 patients/survivors: Epidemic inside a pandemic,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/21572.