an emerging pathogen causing cavitary lung lesions.

Introduction: is an emerging pathogen that causes pulmonary mucormycosis.

Case Presentation: We report a case of pneumonia caused by in a 54-year-old type 2 diabetic patient. The organism was isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and preliminarily identified by fungal morphology and finally by sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region.

Mortality analysis of COVID-19 cases during the second wave and its comparison with the first wave: A hospital-based study.

Objectives: This study was undertaken to determine the characteristics of COVID-19 deaths during the second wave and to compare these characteristics with the mortality during the first wave in a dedicated COVID hospital (DCH).

Study Design: It was a hospital record-based descriptive study.

Methodology: The study was conducted in a tertiary care COVID hospital, using a standard death audit proforma.

Unilateral hyper-translucent lung: a rare case report of bronchial atresia.

A young female patient with chronic left side chest pain warranted a work-up. Chest X-ray suggested left hyper-translucency. High resolution computed tomography scan revealed left atretic apicoposterior segmental bronchus with an area of hyper-translucency suggestive of bronchial atresia.

Are numbers deceptive? Is death auditing a solution for death analysis, among the COVID-19 deceased?: A study from a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Faridabad, Haryana.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has havocked the entire world and India has not been spared. The focus is not only on the containment but on the reduction in mortality also. The objective of the study was to know the trend of COVID-19 deaths in a 510-bedded dedicated COVID-19 hospital and to determine the cause of death and various factors associated with these deaths.