Abstract
This is in reference to the article entitled “Mucormycosis – An opportunistic infection in the aged immunocompromised individual: A reason for concern in COVID-19″ [1]. While it is a very well written and well referenced article, we would like to bring to your notice that the authors have wrongly indicated that mucormycosis and zygomycosis are caused by ‘black fungus.’ The term zygomycosis is broadly used for infections due to fungi of the order Mucorales, as well as the order Entomophthorales. We would like to emphasize that the nomenclature ‘black fungi’ has classically been used in the scientific literature for the demetiaceous or phaeoid fungi, and the related mycosis is caused by melanin-producing fungi with brown/black hyphae or yeast cells observed under microscope, and not due to fungi with non-septate or pauci-septate, hyaline hyphae as seen in mucormycosis (Fig. 1) [2,3].
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