© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com ORIGINAL UNEDITED MANUSCRIPT Microbial and clinical epidemiology of invasive fungal rhinosinusitis in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the divergent causative agents Mahzad Erami 1,2 , Shima Aboutalebian 3,4 , Seyed Jamal Hashemi Hezaveh 1,* , Roshanak Daie Ghazvini 1 , Mansoureh Momen-Heravi 2 , Yazdan Jafari 5 , Amir Hossein Ahsaniarani 6 , Bahare Basirpour 3 , Amir Hassan Matini 7, , Hossein Mirhendi 3,4* 1 Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, infectious diseases research center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. 3 Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 4 Mycology Reference Laboratory, Research Core Facilities Laboratory, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 5 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. 6 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Matini Hospital, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. 7 Department of Pathology and Histology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. *These authors contributed equally to this work. Corresponding authors: Seyed Jamal Hashemi Hezaveh: Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Hossein Mirhendi: Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, Tel: 989133088492, E-mail: s.h.mirhendi@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-1006-4169 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mmy/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mmy/myad020/7076333 by guest on 13 March 2023