Isolation and identification of opportunistic fungi from patients with different types of leukemia in Baghdad province

Abstract

The study is concern on determine the type of opportunistic fungal spp.in leukemia patients that were infected with many types of opportunistic fungal infections including  oral candidiasis as a result to their immune suppression due to their submission to radiation and chemotherapy treatment. From 125 patients who diagnosed with different types of leukemia, 140 samples were collected, 110 samples were positive, and 30 samples were negative. The number of dermatophytes isolates was 21 which represent (19.09%) of the total cases. The number of Candida isolates was 60 which represent (73.17 %) of the total cases. The number of opportunistic fungal isolates was 29 which represent (26.12%) of the total cases. The result showed that the most common isolates were C. guillermondii 19 isolates which represent (31.66 %) of cases, then followed by C. itermedia 11 isolates which represent (18.3 %), C. kyfer 8 isolates which represent (13.3 %), A. niger 17 isolates which represent (58.62 %), A. fumigatus  and   A. flavus 3 isolates which represent (10.34 %), Penicillium 5  isolates which represent (17.24 %), and Alternaria 1 isolate which represent (3.44 %).