TITLE:
Isolation and Identification of Fungi That Cause Hair Loss (Alopecia)
AUTHORS:
Mohammed Mousa Atta, Falah Abdulhassan Hussein
KEYWORDS:
Fungi, Hair Loss, Female Students, Shatra
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.14 No.7,
July
11,
2023
ABSTRACT: Due to the crowded number of female students in a
very narrow place, the fact that the college is for females only, and the fact
that some of the female students live in the internal sections of the student
residence, as well as the crowded number there, and as a result of the presence
of the head covering or what is known as the Islamic veil on the head, which
covers the hair of the head, which provides
a suitable hot humid atmosphere 100% of fungal growth in the scalp of
female students. Therefore, it is necessary to know the widespread fungal
species that contaminate the scalp. In other research, we learn about the
antifungals that should be used to reduce fungal infections in college
employees. The study was carried out to identify the presence and spread of
fungi that cause hair loss. The study was conducted on some students of the
College of Education for Girls/University of Shatra for the period from
1/11/2021 to 1/12/2021, where 100 hundred hair samples were collected from (the scalp) from different ages in different
educational stages, as random samples were taken after asking the
student whether she suffers from hair loss or not, and studying the presence
and spread of fungi in terms of density and type, after transferring them to
the microbiology laboratory-College
of Education for Girls using sterile sample
collection bags. The current results showed that the fungal species E. flocculosum is the most common among them, followed by the
fungal species C. carrionii, then the rest of the genera are as follows: E. flocculosum, Basisdioplus, Aspergillus terreud Hormderndrum Rhodotorula, Bipolaris, Aspergillus, Phoma, Rhizopus, Blastomyces, Microsporum, Sporothrix, Exophiala jeanselmei, Neoscytalidium Aeremonium Cladophialophora
carrionii, Paecilomyces, Exophiala dermatitidis, Geotrichum, Volvariella, Rhizomucor, Saksmaea vassiformis, Candida albicans, Chrysosporium, Dimiatum.