Rhizopus
"Rhizopus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of zygomycetous fungi of the family Mucoraceae, order MUCORALES, a common saprophyte and facultative parasite of mature fruits and vegetables. It may cause cerebral mycoses in diabetes and cutaneous infection in severely burned patients.
| Descriptor ID |
D012233
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.300.500.800
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rhizopus" by people in Profiles.
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Mattingly JK, Ramakrishnan VR. Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis of the Optic Nerve. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 11; 155(5):888-889.
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Koonce RC, Price CS, Sutton DA, Wickes BL, Montero PN, Morgan SJ. Lower-extremity zygomycosis in a patient with traumatic injuries. A case report. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009 Mar 01; 91(3):686-92.
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Barron MA, Lay M, Madinger NE. Surgery and treatment with high-dose liposomal amphotericin B for eradication of craniofacial zygomycosis in a patient with Hodgkin's disease who had undergone allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Apr; 43(4):2012-4.
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Tan HP, Razzouk A, Gundry SR, Bailey L. Pulmonary Rhizopus rhizopodiformis cavitary abscess in a cardiac allograft recipient. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 1999 Apr; 40(2):223-6.
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Hofmann T, Hodges RS, James MN. Effect of pH on the activities of penicillopepsin and Rhizopus pepsin and a proposal for the productive substrate binding mode in penicillopepsin. Biochemistry. 1984 Feb 14; 23(4):635-43.