In a woman with idiopathic atrophy of bone marrow, mucormycosis developed after treatment of dental pulpitis and periodontitis. The infection spread to the paranasal sinuses, orbit, and brain. Typical filaments of zygomycetes were found in histological sections, and Mucor pusillus Lindt was identified in cultures. This is the first human systemic mycosis in Czechoslovakia with cultivated Mucor pusillus.
Fragner P., Kulhánková J., Lukášová M. (1983): Cerebral mucormycosis caused by Mucor pusillus. – Česká Mykologie 37(2): 90–92.
