Introduction: Since its inception in late 2019s, COVID-19 has devastated the human health worldwide while also heavily impacting the global economy. SARS-CoV-2 has affected over 220 countries and territories, with approximately 6,013,000 deaths so far across the globe. In the ‘second wave’ of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants-mediated COVID-19 that affects …
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Introduction: Mucormycosis is an angioinvasive rapidly progressive opportunistic fungal infection due to environmental fungi of the order Mucorales. Depending on the clinical presentation it is classified as rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, disseminated and other. In most cases, there exist underlying conditions that predispose the hosts to the infection.more Dr. Raad …
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Prof. Dr. Hussein Abdulkadhim Ass. prof. Dr. Sahar A. Majeed Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Viral infection is the invasion and multiplication of the non-commensal virus in the body (it’s an indicator of virulence or a decreased body immunity) Viral epidemic is the spread of the virus to community …
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