Abstract
The current study includes a collection of (90) middle ear swabs samples from patients with middle ear infection who attended at the ENT unit at Al- Hilla Teaching Hospital and Imam Sadiq Hospital in Babylon city during the period from October 2021 to February 2022. The blood samples were collected from all patients as well as (40) apparently healthy control. The fungal isolates were identified according to cultural, biochemical tests, confirmed by VITEK 2 system compact. The results revealed that 15:90 were fungal positive culture. The most common fungal pathogen is Candida parapsilosis (10:15). Cytokine profile for patients revealed that IFN-γ and CTLA-4 increase in patients as compared to control versus IL-10 increases in control than patients.
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