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The eye structure is the most direct way for exposer from the environmental bacteria to enter causing infections and certain diseases. Immunocompromised hosts are more likely to get an eye infection caused by fungi because the immune response is generally very effective at controlling fungal infections, therefore it will eliminate pathogenic fungi when they begin to grow in the body and cause diseases. However an individual who is immunocompromised the fungi on the inside or the outside colonize leaving them with lower levels of fungi that exists as a commensal in the body which can outgrow and cause a disease, unfettered by the immune response. Because there is a lapse in the immune system, immunocompromised hosts are at the highest risk for infections with endemic fungi. The most known infections in immunocompromised hosts are zygomycetes, fusarium and scedosporium (Barron, M. and Madinger, N.,