Study of Opportunistic Infections in Diabet Mellitus patients in Islamic Azad University Hospitals

Diabet mellitus is a chronic disease. In this disorder, due to abnormal glucose metabolism, direct and indirect complications in many organ systems, including ocular, cardio-vascular, vernal, and cerebral and suppression of immune system have been occurred. Decreasing of both cellular and humoral immune system is a important factor for opportunistic infections. Prevention and control of these infections and recognize of their frequency and risk factor is very important. In this study, 118 diabetic patients that admitted in Islamic Azad University hospitals were included. Chief complaint of every patient, important finding in clinical examinations and results of microbial culturing from opportunistic infections had been analyzed. From 118 patients, 65 cases (55%) were female and 53 cases (45%) were male. Mean age of patients was 59.6 ± 11.7 years old and mean duration time of disease was 13.6 ± 7.8 years. Thirty one cases (26.1%) infected by opportunistic bacterial. From patient's samples (in microbial culturing), 12 cases (38.5%0 Escherichia coli, 9 cases (29%) fungal pathogens, 5 cases (16.3%0 staphylococcus aurous and 5 cases (16.3%0 Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated. Because of high frequency of infections in diabetic patients, using of preventing methods is important. On the other hand, diagnostic and treatment of these infections prevent from their complications.