Abstract

DETECTION OF CYTOMEGALO VIRUS ANTIBODY AND ANTIGEN AMONG PREGNANT AND REPEATED ABORTION WOMAN IN KHARTOM STATES

Alnorani Abdallah Gad Allah Tamym* and Maha ELfadil

Abstract

Background: Cytomegalovirus is the most common cause of congenital infection .Clinical features range from Asymptomatic to symptoms that resemble infectious mononucleosis, including sore throat and prolonged fever. Aim. Eighty eight serum sample collected from pregnant and repeated abortion women to carry out seroprevalent study, ELISA use to detect IgM and IgG for Cytomegalovirus. Patients, categorised into those with repeated abortion and those with pregnancy. Results. The 88patients included IgM 2 (52%) and IgG 86 non-BA patients; Among 32 case of repeat abortion, IgM was detected in (2) cases 6.3%) which is significant rate (p.value 0.05), while the IgG was detected in 31case 96.9% (p.value 0.6) Out of 13 abnormal birth child case cytomegalovirus IgM was detected in 2 cases (15.4%) and all cases show positive for IgG 96.9% (p.value 0.5) only 2 patients were CMV-positive (IgM/IgG) Conclusions. Our results suggest a correlation between CMV infection and repeat abortion furthermore CMV is one of the evidence in abnormal birth child.

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