Increasing Incidence of Zygomycosis (Mucormycosis), France, 1997–2006

Bitar, Dounia; Van Cauteren, Dieter; Lanternier, Fanny; Dannaoui, Éric; Che, Didier; Dromer, Françoise; C Desenclos, J; Lortholary, Olivier

doi:10.3201/eid1509.090334

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Increasing Incidence of Zygomycosis (Mucormycosis), France, 1997–2006

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Sep 1, 2009

Authors:

Dounia Bitar

Dieter Van Cauteren

Fanny Lanternier

Abstract

We analyzed hospital records to provide a population-based estimate of zygomycosis incidence and trends over a 10-year period at a national level in France. Data showed an increasing incidence from 0.7/million in 1997 to 1.2/million in 2006 (p<0.001). We compared our data with those from the French ...

Subject

Zygomycosis

Mucormycosis

Incidence (geometry)

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