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Comment & Response
June 2014

Violaceous Necrotic Plaques on the Leg of an Immunosuppressed Patient

Author Affiliations
  • 1Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
  • 2Department of Dermatology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
JAMA Dermatol. 2014;150(6):674. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.10568

To the Editor In the JAMA Dermatology Clinicopathological Challenge that describes a man with cutaneous mucormycosis, Xu and colleagues1 state that the pathogen, Mucor species, is a member of the “Zygomycetes class of the Mucorales order.”1(p80) This phrasing inverts the usual taxonomic hierarchy, and to make things more confusing, the Zygomycetes class no longer exists. Not that the “zygomycotic” organisms are extinct, but the taxonomic term Zygomycete is now obsolete. (The error of this phrase was recognized, and it was corrected online January 15, 2014; a printed correction was published in the March issue of JAMA Dermatology.2 We herein expand on that correction.)

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