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Table 4 Relationship between gender and pathogenic fungal species in 174 renal transplant recipients with mucormycosis

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

Isolated zygomycetes

Number of male cases/total no. of cases (%)

Mycocladus (Absidia) species

4/4(100%)

Apophysomyces elegans

4/5(80.0%)

Cunninghamella species

5/7(71.4%)

Mucor species

10/11(90.9%)

Rhizomucor species

3/6(50.0%)

Rhizopus species

39/52(75.0%)

 Not speciated

19/26(73.1%)

Rhizopus oryzae

14/18(77.8%)

Rhizopus microsporus

3/5(60.0%)

Rhizopus rhizopodiformis

3/3(100%)

Other

1/2(50.0%)

Unidentified zygomycetes

66/86(76.7%)

Total

133/174(76.4%)