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Descriptor English: Zygomycosis
Descriptor Spanish: Cigomicosis
Descriptor cigomicosis
Entry term(s) entomoftoramicosis
ficomicosis
zigomicosis
Scope note: Infección de los seres humanos y animales producida por hongos de la clase Zygomycetes. Incluye la MUCORMICOSIS y la entomoftoramicosis. Esta última es una infección tropical del tejido subcutáneo o de los senos paranasales producida por hongos del orden Entomophthorales. La ficomicosis, íntimamente relacionada con la zigomicosis, describe la infección producida por miembros de los Ficomicetos, clasificación que ya es obsoleta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Zigomicose
Descriptor French: Zygomycose
Entry term(s): Entomophthoramycoses
Entomophthoramycosis
Phycomycoses
Phycomycosis
Zygomycoses
Tree number(s): C01.150.703.980
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020096
Scope note: Infection in humans and animals caused by fungi in the class Zygomycetes. It includes MUCORMYCOSIS and entomophthoramycosis. The latter is a tropical infection of subcutaneous tissue or paranasal sinuses caused by fungi in the order Entomophthorales. Phycomycosis, closely related to zygomycosis, describes infection with members of Phycomycetes, an obsolete classification.
Annotation: fungus dis caused by various Zygomycetes; for dis caused by Mucorales, MUCORMYCOSIS is available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Mucormycosis (1975-1998)
Mycoses (1976-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 99; see MUCORMYCOSIS 1989-98
History Note: 99; use MUCORMYCOSIS 1989-98
DeCS ID: 33754
Unique ID: D020096
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/11
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Zygomycosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0029826
Scope note Infection in humans and animals caused by fungi in the class Zygomycetes. It includes MUCORMYCOSIS and entomophthoramycosis. The latter is a tropical infection of subcutaneous tissue or paranasal sinuses caused by fungi in the order Entomophthorales. Phycomycosis, closely related to zygomycosis, describes infection with members of Phycomycetes, an obsolete classification.
Preferred term Zygomycosis
Entry term(s) Zygomycoses
Phycomycosis - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0029827
Preferred term Phycomycosis
Entry term(s) Phycomycoses
Entomophthoramycosis - Narrower
Concept UI M0029828
Preferred term Entomophthoramycosis
Entry term(s) Entomophthoramycoses



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