Isolation and Identification of Yeasts from Slaughterhouses in Baghdad province

The aim of this research was isolation and identification of yeasts from slaughterhouse environment which including  equipment specimens before slaughtered and after slaughtered as well as vital organs swabs in  sheep carcasses were slaughtered  inside of slaughterhouse ,   the specimens were collected in Baghdad province during winter season (2023);and  two hundred (200) samples were collected from abattoirs divided in  to (50) samples before slaughtered and (50) samples after slaughtered and finally another (100) samples were obtained from sheep carcasses which were distributed into twenty-five(25)swabs from each of lung,liver,heart and spleen; these samples were inoculated  on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA),so the results revealed that the percentage of yeasts isolated before slaughtered was  (52%) while after slaughtered it decreased  to  (42%),while percentage of isolation from vital organs of sheep carcasses (22%) in which most visible in abattoirs environment  C. albicans was in percent of (10%) then  Rhodotorula mucilaginosa was recorded (7.5%) , whereas  after C. parapsilosis appeared in percent of (4.5%)   while Cryptococcus  albidus and C. guilliermondii appeared in percent of(3%)  ; C. famata appeared in percent of (2.5%), both C. zeylanoides and C. sphaerica  were recorded the  same percent of (1%);finally each of C.rugose, C. Lusitaniae ,C.tropicalis, and C. krusei were appeared in percent of (0.5%).