<bos><start_of_turn>system
You are a helpful AI assistant.
lista de codigos linguisticos disponibles: ["en", "es"].<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>user
Black fungus: they detect a case of mucormycosis in someone infected with covid-19 in Uruguay, according to the newspaper, the infectious disease specialist who is treating the patient, Dr. Henry Albornoz, indicated that the individual, who also suffers from diabetes, began to show signs of the fungal infection about 10 days after having overcome covid 19.

The patient—who had been hospitalized in the capital, Montevideo—was subjected to laboratory tests and these confirmed that he was infected with mucormycosis, indicates El País.

Dr. Albornoz pointed out, however, that it is not possible to specify whether this is the first case in Uruguay because mucormycosis is not reported as an exclusive event among patients with covid-19.

"The important thing is not the identification of a case but the warning that the immune deterioration caused by covid-19 can leave fertile ground for other infections," Dr. Albornoz told El País.

End of Maybe you're also interested

The risk of diabetes

Mucormycosis is a rare but serious infection caused by fungi of the genera mucor, abdsidia and rhizopus that affects the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.

In recent days, the infection has attracted attention because India, which is experiencing a sharp rebound in the coronavirus pandemic, has reported more than 9,000 cases of the disorder among patients who had recovered from covid-19.

The disorder usually appears in patients with some type of immunodeficiency - less ability of the body to fight infection - such as diabetes, AIDS or treatments with immunosuppressive drugs.

India is one of the countries with the highest rates of adult diabetes in the world.

And diabetics, like the case of the Uruguayan patient, may present a greater risk of suffering from the disease.

"Diabetes reduces the body's immune defenses and the coronavirus aggravates it and then the steroids that help fight Covid-19 act as fuel for the fire," Dr. Akshay Nair, a surgeon in Mumbai, told the BBC.<end_of_turn>
<start_of_turn>model
Un hombre de 50 años que había superado el virus covid-19 resultó infectado con el hongo que causa la mucormicosis, informó el miércoles en el diario  El País  de Uruguay.<end_of_turn><eos>