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Rare exclusive infection of diabetes mellitus are all except:

A
Mucormycosis
B
Atypical mycobacterial infection
C
Emphysematous appendicitis
D
Hansen's disease
High-Yield Explanation
(D) Hansen's disease # Mucormycosis is an invasive disease caused by phycomycetes, mainly by species of Rhizopus, Mucor and Absidia.> It used to be a rare terminal complication of uncontrolled diabetes and other chronic debilitating diseases.> The incidence of the disease has increased considerably as a result of the widespread use of antibiotics, steroids and antimetabolites.> The fungi are normally avirulent and are able to invade tissues only when general resistance is extremely low.

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