Multicenter Case–Control Study of COVID-19–Associated Mucormycosis Outbreak, India
Valliappan Muthu, Ritesh Agarwal
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, Shivaprakash Mandya Rudramurthy, Deepak Thangaraju, Manoj Radhakishan Shevkani, Atul K. Patel, Prakash Srinivas Shastri, Ashwini Tayade, Sudhir Bhandari, Vishwanath Gella, Jayanthi Savio, Surabhi Madan, Vinay Kumar Hallur, Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu, Arjun Srinivasan, Nandini Sethuraman, Raminder Pal Singh Sibia, Sanjay Pujari, Ravindra Mehta, Tanu Singhal, Puneet Saxena, Varsha Gupta, Vasant Nagvekar, Parikshit Prayag, Dharmesh Patel, Immaculata Xess, Pratik Savaj, Naresh Panda, Gayathri Devi Rajagopal, Riya Sandeep Parwani, Kamlesh Patel, Anuradha Deshmukh, Aruna Vyas, Srinivas Kishore Sistla, Priyadarshini A Padaki, Dharshni Ramar, Saurav Sarkar, Bharani Rachagulla, Pattabhiraman Vallandaramam, Krishna Prabha Premachandran, Sunil Pawar, Piyush Gugale, Pradeep Hosamani, Sunil Narayan Dutt, Satish Nair, Hariprasad Kalpakkam, Sanjiv Badhwar, Kiran Kumar Kompella, Nidhi Singla, Milind Navlakhe, Amrita Prayag, Gagandeep Singh, Poorvesh Dhakecha, and Arunaloke Chakrabarti
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Author affiliations: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India (V. Muthu, R. Agarwal, S.M. Rudramurthy, N. Panda, A. Chakrabarti); Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, India (D. Thangaraju, G.D. Rajagopal); Avron Hospitals, Ahmedabad, India (M.R. Shevkani, R.S. Parwani); Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad (A.K. Patel, K. Patel); Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, India (P.S. Shastri); Kingsway Hospital, Nagpur, India (A. Tayade, A. Deshmukh); Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, India (S. Bhandari, A. Vyas); Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India (V. Gella, S.K. Sistla); St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, Bengaluru, India (J. Savio, P.A. Padaki); Care Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad (S. Madan, D. Ramar); All India Institute of Medical Science Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (V.K. Hallur, S. Sarkar); Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad (V.N. Maturu, B. Rachagulla); Royal Care Hospital, Coimbatore (A. Srinivasan, P. Vallandaramam); Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India (N. Sethuraman, K.P. Premachandran); Government Medical College, Patiala, India (R.P.S. Sibia, S. Pawar); Poona Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India (S. Pujari, P. Gugale); Apollo Hospitals, Bengaluru (R. Mehta, H. Kalpakkam, P. Hosamani, S.N. Dutt, S. Nair); Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India (T. Singhal, S. Badhwar); Army Hospital (Research and Referral), New Delhi (P. Saxena, K.K. Kompella); Government Medical College, Chandigarh (V. Gupta, N. Singla); Global Hospital, Mumbai (V. Nagvekar, M. Navlakhe); Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune (P. Prayag, A. Prayag); City Clinic and Bhailal Amin General Hospital, Vadodara, India (D. Patel); All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (I. Xess, G. Singh); Institute of Infectious Disease and Critical Care Hospital, Surat, India (P. Savaj, P. Dhakecha)
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![Percentages of hypoxemic and nonhypoxemic participants receiving cumulative glucocorticoid doses above and below the current recommendations (cumulative dexamethasone dose equivalent to 60 mg) as determined in multicenter case-control study of COVID-19–associated mucormycosis outbreak, India, January–June 2021. Case-patients are shown in black and control-patients are shown in gray. More case-patients than control-patients had received higher-than-recommended doses of glucocorticoids.](/eid/images/22-0926-F1.jpg)
Figure. Percentages of hypoxemic and nonhypoxemic participants receiving cumulative glucocorticoid doses above and below the current recommendations (cumulative dexamethasone dose equivalent to 60 mg) as determined in multicenter case-control study of COVID-19–associated mucormycosis outbreak, India, January–June 2021. Case-patients are shown in black and control-patients are shown in gray. More case-patients than control-patients had received higher-than-recommended doses of glucocorticoids.
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