The Department of Life Sciences in the College of Education for Pure Sciences at the University of Karbala discussed a master’s thesis entitled (Evaluation of the effectiveness of some fungal filtrates, ordinary and nanoparticles, against black fungus outside the body of the organism) by the student (Nabaa Muhammad Obeis) and supervised by (Prof. Dr. Ban Taha Muhammad). Where the aim of the thesis was to convert fungal filtrates obtained from the natural flora of recovered and non-infected people with Covid-19 disease, which showed high antagonism against the black mold fungus, Rhizopus spp, into zinc and nanosilver compounds. The results also showed that the incidence of Aspergillus spp. in the studied samples was high, which indicates the danger of this fungus, and it may turn into a pathogen when the immunity is weak. The study recommended that it is possible to use fungal filtrate with silver and zinc nanoparticles to inhibit black fungus in the medical field to reduce the spread of fungal spores in infection areas, considering the environmentally friendly nanomaterials. The study also recommended the possibility of identifying the chemical compounds of the fungal filtrate that showed inhibition of the growth of the fungus that causes the black fungus due to the characteristics of these filtrates of biological resistance and the application of experiments on laboratory animals. The student obtained an honors degree.
