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Abstract
Nosocomial fungal infections had been increased for the past 25 years due to increased survival of immunocompromised patients who are highly susciptible to fungal infections. The aim of the present work is to identify the types of fungi causing nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients in Mansoura University Hospitals and to evaluate the immune status of the patients who acquired nosocomial fungal infection by counting total T-lymphocytes. A total of 334 samples were taken. They were classified into 168 from patients, 40 from environment, 96 from personells and 30 from control group. In the present work, nosocomial fungal infections represented 29.76% of the total nosocomial infection and the commonest fungal infections were wound infection (26%), oral infection (24%), URTI (22%), LRTI (14%), UTI (10%) and BSI (4%). The distribution of nosocomial fungal infections differ in relation to different causes of immunosuppression. The highest incidence of occurence of wound infection was among burned patients (77%). Also