عزل و تشخيص بعض أنواع الفطريات و الطفيليات من الصرصر الأمريكي Periplaneta Americana L.(Dictyoptrea ; Blattidae)‎ في مستشفى الحسين التعليمي العام في مدينة الناصرية

Abstract EN

The 100 American cockroaches were collected from various sites of ALhussian educational general hospital and 42 cockroaches from residential areas 89 out of 100 (89 %) cockroaches showed contamination with fungi .

The results revealed isolation and identification 10 fungal species from surface and digestive tract which included candida albicans (19.13 %) , C.parapsiosis (9.56 %) , C.tropicalis (10.43 %) ,Aspergillus niger (12.17 %) , Penicillium sp (13.91%) , Rhizopus sp (6.95%) , Mucor sp (1.73 %) and each C.krusi, A.flavus, A.fumigatus (8.69 %) .

In addition the results showed 12 out of 100 (12 %) cockroaches were contamination with parasites and there were Enterobius vermicalars (41.16 %) , Ascaris (25 %) , Ancylostoma and Entamoeba histolytica each (16.7%) .

18 out of 42 (42.85 %) were caught from residential areas showed contamination with 6 fungal species belong to 3 genera Candida spp, Aspergillus spp and Penicillium sp .

When antifungal sensitivity test was done .

The fungal species showed resistance against antifungal and have no difference statistically significant between resistance of fungi that isolated from cockroaches which collected from hospital and that fungi isolated from cockroaches trapped from residential areas .