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A review on Mucormycosis in view of COVID-19, Diabetes and the role of Iron

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17326006_MNS.pdf (786.94 KB)

Date

2021-10

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BRAC University

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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/17196

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Abstract

COVID-19 has made people all over the world susceptible to other diseases caused by various microorganisms. One of them is caused by a fungus called mucormycosis or black fungus. Together with diabetes and COVID-19, it creates the perfect mechanism to make a person less immune to other diseases. This review concerns with how becoming infected with COVID-19 makes way for diabetes to either occur or worsen and for the fungi to be opportunistic and infect a person who is already immunocompromised. There are comparisons made from one country to another having all of the above diseases altogether. The role that iron plays in declining the condition of combination of diseases is also mentioned.

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Covid-19, Diabetes type I and II, Mucormycosis, Black fungus, Iron, Risk factors

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This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, 2021.
Catalogued from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-30).

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Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

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Thesis

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Thesis (Bachelor of Science in Microbiology)