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As with other invasive filamentous fungal infections, there are no specific clinical or radiological signs, and we have fewer diagnostic tools available than for other invasive fungal infections. Therefore, the diagnosis of Mucormycosis remains difficult. Nevertheless, for optimal management, early and accurate diagnosis is important. According to the latest recommendations, diagnosis is based on direct examination of clinical specimens, and\/or histopathology, and culture. There are also molecular tools for direct detection from clinical specimens, but these techniques are moderately recommended. The main problems with these molecular techniques are that, until now, they were not very well standardized; there was a great heterogeneity of DNA targets and methods, which resulted in variable sensitivity. It is in this field that most advances have been made in the last two years. Indeed, recent studies have evaluated the performance and kinetics of Mucorales qPCR in serum and have shown good sensitivity and specificity. Large inter-laboratory evaluations of qPCR in serum have also been performed and have demonstrated good qualitative and quantitative reproducibility. These new results suggest the use of Mucorales qPCR as part of the diagnostic strategy for mucormycosis. One way to achieve better reproducibility could be to use commercial methods. Currently, there are at least three commercial qPCRs for Mucorales (MucorGenius from PathoNostics, MycoGenie from Ademtech, and Fungiplex from Bruker) that can be used to test serum, respiratory samples, or biopsies. However, to date, there has been little evaluation of these methods. Overall, Mucorales PCR in tissue samples, in respiratory samples, and in serum is promising and its addition as a diagnostic tool in the definitions of invasive mucormycosis should be discussed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jof8050457","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,28]],"date-time":"2022-04-28T22:20:06Z","timestamp":1651184406000},"page":"457","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Recent Developments in the Diagnosis of Mucormycosis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2817-3830","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eric","family":"Dannaoui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Unit\u00e9 de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Service de Microbiologie, H\u00f4pital Europ\u00e9en Georges-Pompidou, AP-HP, F-75015 Paris, France"},{"name":"UR Dynamic 7380, UPEC, EnvA, USC ANSES, Facult\u00e9 de Sant\u00e9, F-94000 Cr\u00e9teil, France"},{"name":"Facult\u00e9 de M\u00e9decine, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9, F-75006 Paris, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Prakash, H., and Chakrabarti, A. 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