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Table 3 Microbiological findings for 88 renal transplant recipients with mucormycosis, 38 of whom died

From: Mucormycosis in renal transplant recipients: review of 174 reported cases

Isolated zygomycetes

Number (%) of all patients

Number of patients who died/total number (%)

Mycocladus (Absidia) species

4 (4.5%)

2/4(50%)

Apophysomyces elegans

5 (5.7%)

3/5(60%)

Cunninghamella species

7 (8.0%)

2/7(28.6%)

Mucor species

12 (13.6%)

7/12 (58.3%)

Rhizomucor species

6 (6.8%)

3/6 (50%)

Rhizopus species

52(59.1%)

19/52 (36.5%)

 Not speciated

26 (29.5%)

7/26 (26.9%)

Rhizopus oryzae

18 (20.5%)

7/18 (38.9%)

Rhizopus microsporus

5 (5.7%)

4/5 (80%)

Rhizopus rhizopodiformis

3 (3.4%)

1/3 (33.3%)

Other

2 (2.3%)

0/2 (0%)

Total

88 (100%)

36/88 (40.9%)