TY - JOUR T1 - A review of the mucormycosis prevalence during the pandemic of the coronavirus (Covid-19) worldwide TT - مروری بر شیوع قارچ سیاه(Mucormycosis) در دوران همه گیری ویروس کروناCOVID-19)) در سراسر جهان JF - iau-tmuj JO - iau-tmuj VL - 32 IS - 3 UR - http://tmuj.iautmu.ac.ir/article-1-1926-en.html Y1 - 2022 SP - 239 EP - 245 KW - COVID-19 KW - Mucormycosis KW - Prevalence N2 - Background: The COVID-19 was first reported in 2019 in Wuhan, China, and spread rapidly in China and other countries. The virus was followed by a wide range of bacterial and opportunistic fungal diseases, including fungal infections such as mucormycosis. Materials and methods: In this narrative review study, scientific databases, such as PubMed, Google Scholar and Springer were searched with the keywords, including Mucormycosis and COVID-19 in the time period between 2020 February and July 2021. 27 articles were retrieved, in which 18 articles were used in the study and 9 were excluded. Results: So far, many people with the coronavirus have been infected by black fungus in the world. Most affected people had the history of diabetes mellitus and also receiving high dose corticosteroids. Conclusion: Recently, with the outbreak of a new wave of the deadly Covid 19 virus in India, there have been many cases of mucormycosis. Mucocycosis is fatal in about 30% of cases. M3 10.52547/iau.32.3.239 ER -