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In addition, <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> antifungal susceptibility was performed using the CLSI M38Ed3 procedure.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Out of 196 tested soil samples, 80 (40.8%) samples were positive for mucoralean fungi. <jats:italic>Rhizopus arrhizus<\/jats:italic> var. <jats:italic>arrhizus<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a047) was the most frequent species followed by <jats:italic>Mucor circinelloides<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a021) and <jats:italic>Cunninghamella echinulata<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a06). A seasonal variation in the frequency of Mucorales in soil was detected with a maximum of culture\u2010positive soil samples detected in wet autumn (43.2%) followed by winter (23.4%), summer (19.7%) and spring (13.6%). <jats:italic>In vitro<\/jats:italic> antifungal susceptibility testing for 80 environmental isolates exhibited MIC of \u22642\u00a0\u03bcg\/ml for amphotericin B indicating the smallest range of MIC variation among the tested Mucorales (range: 0.125\u20132\u00a0\u03bcg\/ml). Among the azoles, posaconazole was the most effective antifungals (GM MIC, 0.724\u00a0\u03bcg\/ml).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>We considered associations of species and seasonal frequencies between soil mucoralean fungi and mucormycosis. 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