Antifungal Susceptibility of Oral Candida Species Isolated from Patients with Thalassemia Major

In developing countries, diligent efforts have been devised to screen and monitor the patients closely and have helped preventing morbidity and mortality due to iron overload. However, infection-related deaths in developing and developed countries still occur [2]. Invasive fungal infections are the major cause of infections in patients with thalassemias. This high mortality rate stems, in part, from the prevalence of resistance to antifungal agents, characteristics of the population at risk and the standard of the health care facilities available [3].