Overview on common fungal infections, recovered in Baghdad teaching hospitals in five years
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https://doi.org/10.22317/imj.v4i2.819Keywords:
Baghdad teaching hospital, Acute Myeliod leukemia, Invasive fungal infectionAbstract
Objective: To evaluate the burden of invasive fungal infections , recovered in a group of patients who were non responsive to antibiotic therapy and have been referred from some Iraqi hospitals in five years interval in a clinical and microbiological scope.
Methods:
Samples were collected during from the 25th of May 2012 to 5th of November 2017 enrolled 1444 Iraqi adult patients who referred by hematology-oncology unit, medical wards, bone marrow transplant unit and respiratory care unit with some other cases received from other hospitals in the capital Baghdad. samples from any infected sites were sent to the central medical mycology lab to identify the causative fungi using wet mount, direct examination, culture and sensitivity tests, biochemical and some serological examinations as galactomannan testing for invasive aspergillosis and PCR test to detect some pathological properties of a group of Aspergillus species.
Results
Although (26,6%) 387 samples revealed no fungal isolates most of them were of blood culture. The commonest fungus noticed in all samples was Cryptococcus neoformans in the first place 646 samples (38.63%), the next was Candida albicans and non albicans in 594 samples (35.52%).Aspergillus species in 252 samples (15.07%) ,Penicillium 27 samples (1.61%) ,Gieotrichum candidum15 samples (0.89),Zygomycetes and Rhizopus 20 (1.18% ),Trichosporon and Rhodotorula glutinis yeasts 14 )0.83%(, Sporothrixes schenkii 5(0.29%),2(0.11%) two cases of systemic mycosis one Histoplasma capsulatum and the other is Coccidiomycosis immitus .
Conclusions: The incidence of fungal infection is greatly increased in Iraq in relation to global and local risk factors with tendency for multiple fungal isolates in one patient. represents a major health problem in a wide variety of disease conditions ranging from hematology oncology to uncontrolled diabetic cases. with high case of fatality among hematological malignancies with neutropenia.
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3 . Bow EJ, Loewen R, Cheang MS, Schacter B. Invasive fungal disease in adults undergoing remission-induction therapy for acute myeloid leukemia: the pathogenetic role of the antileuke¬mic regimen. Clin Infect Dis. 1995 ; 21:361-369
4. Mikulska M, Calandra T, Sanguinetti M, et al. Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia Group. The use of mannan antigen and anti-mannan antibodies in the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis: recommendations from the Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia. Crit Care 2010;14:R222.
5. Thursky K, Byrnes G, Grigg A, Szer J, Slavin M. Risk factors for post-engraftment invasive aspergillosis in allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant.2004; 34:115-121
6. Muhlemann K, Wenger C, Zenhausern R, Tauber MG. Risk factors for invasive aspergillosis in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies. Leukemia.2005; 19:545-550
7. Kobayashi R, Kaneda M, Sato T, Suzuki D, Ichikawa M, Ariga T. Evaluation of risk factors for invasive fungal infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol.2007; 29:786-791
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35. Pfaller MA and Diekema DJ. Rare and emerging opportunistic fungal pathogens: concern for resistance beyond Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus. J Clin Microbiol.2004; 42: 4419-4431
36. Pappas PG, Alexander BD, Andes DR, et al. Invasive fungal infections among organ transplant recipients: results of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network Clin Infect Dis. 2010;50(8):1101
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Ali Al-Wattar WM. Overview on common fungal infections, recovered in Baghdad teaching hospitals in five years. Iraq Med J [Internet]. 2020 Jun. 26 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];4(2). Available from: https://iraqmedj.org/index.php/imj/article/view/819
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