mucormycosis

A fungal disease which may take the form of: (1) a necrotic placentitis which causes abortion; sometimes there are cutaneous lesions over much of the skin of the calf; (2) granulomatous lesions in various tissues and closely resembling lesions of tuberculosis; (3) gastroenteritis and ulceration of the alimentary tract mucosa at all levels; (4) a secondary invasion of rumenitis lesions, which leads to peritonitis and lesions in the liver. The causative fungi may be Rhizopus, Absidia and Mucor spp.