عزل الفطريات المرافقة لشعر فروة رأس الأطفال

الملخص EN

The present study include a number of primary school children in Diwaniyah city, aged 6–12 years, in order to survey fungi of hair scalp.

Fifteen fungal species belonging to eight genera were recorded. Penicillium digitatum was the most frequent and a occurant species (50.00% and 45.45 % respectively), whereas Paecilomyces lilacinus came secondly according to frequency percentage (21.05%) and thirdly according to occurance percentage ( 13 .63 % ) . The study showed that percentage of boys whose carried fungi in their hair scalp were more than that of girls ( 65% vs.

45% ) .