DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sajb.2025.v13i05.003

Pages: 509-516

The Fungi play an important role in human life, both positively and negatively. Among the most important fungi are Aspergillus, Penicillium and Candida. These fungi have a great impact on human health, whether as pathogens or as sources of medicines. For example, Aspergillus fungi, which causes serious diseases such as aspergillosis, especially in people with weak immunity. While some for it are used in the pharmaceutical industry to produce some important enzymes, as for Penicillium fungus is considered the most important in the history of medicine for the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin, which is used as an antibacterial. In addition, it helps in the production of cheese and some industrial enzymes. Also, Candida fungus lives naturally in the human body, but it causes fungal infections such as candidiasis when there is an imbalance in the bacterial balance or weak immunity, and it can cause skin infections There are also cryptococcosis, dermatophytes and many other fungi that are highlighted in this review to identify the most aggressive fungi that cause diseases in human In return, identifying other fungi that are beneficial for it in the creation of antibiotics and other applications used in the medical area, such as Tolypocladium and Trichoderma fungus, and used in the food industry, such as the Saccharomyces fungi. Knowing the function of these fungi aids in the development of novel approaches to the treatment and prevention of fungal illnesses as well as strategies for utilizing and profiting from them in industrial settings.