[Aspergilli and chronic lung diseases]

In this study, mycological examinations of morning sputum of patients with chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma has been performed. Specimens were also examined from patients with lobar pneumonia as a control. A fumigatus and A. niger has been isolated from patients chronic bronchitis in frequency of 4.5% and 0.8% respectively. These 2 fungi has also been isolated from patients with bronchial asthma in frequency of 24.5% (A. fumigatus) and 2.4% (A. niger). The frequency of isolation of A. fumigatus has been found statistically significant between these two groups of patients (p less than 0.05). No isolation of Aspergillus spp. has been noted in control patients specimens.