Isolation and Identification of Pathogenic Filamentous Fungi and XXXX From Adult House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) Captured From the Hospital Environments in Ahvaz City, Southwestern Iran.

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UNASSIGNED: Musca domestica L., 1758 is capable of transferring a number of pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites to animals and @entity1 . The objective of this study was to isolate and identify medically important filamentous fungi and @entity375 from adult @entity14085 collected from two wards of three hospital environments in Ahvaz city, Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran. The common house flies were caught by a sterile net. These insects were washed in a solution of 1% @entity8830 for 3   min and twice in sterile distilled water for 1   min. The flies were individually crushed with sterile swabs in sterile test tubes. Then 2   ml of sterile normal saline (0.85%) was added to each tube, and the tube was centrifuged for 5   min. The supernatant was then discarded, and the remaining sediment was inoculated with a sterile swab in the Sabouraud's dextrose agar medium containing @entity2755 . Isolation and identification of fungi were made by standard mycological methods. In this research, totally 190   @entity14085 from hospital environments were captured. In total, 28 fungal species were isolated. The main fungi isolated were Aspergillus spp. (67.4%), Penicillium sp. (11.6%), Mucorales sp. (11%), Candida spp. (10.5%), and Rhodotorula sp. (8.4%). Among the house flies caught at the hospitals, about 80% were found to carry one or more medically important species of fungi. This study has established that common house flies carry pathogenic fungi in the hospital environments of Ahvaz. The control of @entity14085 in hospitals is essential in order to control the nosocomial @entity364 in @entity1 .
