Isolation and Diagnosis of Fungus Fungi from Blood and Skin Samples in Dhi-Qar Province

About 60 clinical samples have been collected (40 of both sexes from Al Hussein Educational Hospital in Dhi-Qar and 20 UTI students). Also 40 samples from of patients with skin fungal infections (including skin scraps, nail clippings, and parts of hair). The morphological and microscopic results of the isolates revealed that 21 isolates were Candida spp (Candida spp.), while the rest of the isolates were isolated at different rates and less frequently in the citrus samples. The skin samples showed 5 fungal species causing represented in 9 species involve Aspergillusflavus Aspergillusfumigatus, Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, Miccrosporiumgypseum, M.nanum, M.canis, Trichophytonspp, Epidermatophyton spp. The study also nails are the areas that mostly are infected according other areas, this may be because of their ability to produce some enzymes such as Phospholipase which plays an important role in breaking through the host issues.