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Incidence of Aspergillus species in Hospital Environment
Authors: Ibrahim Ali Altayyar, Mohamed Farge Elbreki, Shaherah Alsounosi Alsharef, Housien mohamme mohammed, Faissal Rumddan Alemam
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The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Aspergillus species among the Hospital environment in Southwestern, Libya. A total of 549 microbiological environmental samples were included in this study for prevalence of Aspergillus species. 448 (81.6%) of these sample have shown fungal growth.
During this study, 2607 fungal colonies were identified, 2010 (77.1%) of these were molds species. The most common isolated molds were Aspergillus species 1878 (72%). The highest percentage of isolated Aspergillus species were A. niger 1241 (66.1%), followed by A. fumigatus 281 (15%), A. terrus 156 (8.3%), A. flavus 128 (6.8%), A. glaucus 40 (2.1%), A.nidulans 31 (1.6%) and A. clavatus 1 (0.1%).
The distribution of Aspergillus species among the Hospitals environment was the highest in Pediatric word, Female word, Radiology unit, Corridors, ICU and Dialysis unit, respectively.