Mucormycosis is one of the most sudden, severe and fatal fungal infection in humans, with a high mortality rate. It is most often caused by the Rhizopus, Rhizomucor and Cunninghamella genera of the family Mucoraceae. Mucormycosis is a disease of the diseased and is not commonly seen in healthy people. Diabetes, chronic kidney disease, desferroxamine use in dialysis, leukemia, lymphoma, immunocompromised state, burns and open wounds are the risk factors of mucormycosis. We present a case of 48 years old male patient who came with the chief complaint of swelling in his right side of face since 2 months, which was initially clinically diagnosed as osteomyelitis and later confirmed to be mucormycosis following radiographical and histopathological examination.

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Mucormycosis following Covid-19 – Onerous diagnosis : A case report