Abstract

The etiologic agents of mucormycosis are filamentous opportunistic fungi in the order Mucorales which may be found in rotten fruit and vegetables, plants and soil and commonly causing rhinocerebral mucormycosis, in particularly patients with immunosuppression and diabetic ketoacidosis. They may also cause cutaneous mucormycosis in patients with major traumas. Cutaneous mucormycosis may emerge as a result of use of contaminated medical tools on trauma areas or wounds. In this paper, a twenty-year-old female with a wound infection yielded a fungus suggestive of Mucorales with specific morphological characteristics developing on her left foot in the third day following a traffic accident is presented. The patient was diagnosed after microscopic examination of the deep tissue sample and culture positivity. Lesions of the patient regressed following the surgical debridement and administration of a 14-day liposomal amphotericin B.