Abstract

SEROPREVALENCE STUDY OF HUMAN CYTOMEGALO VIRUS INFECTION AMONG BAD OBESTETRIC HISTORY AND PRIMIGRAVIDA PREGNANT WOMEN IN IRAQ

*Noor Al- Huda Ali A. H. Saeed, Liqaa Jammel Ibraheem, luma Qasim Ali, Enas Waleed Shakir and Rana S. Jawad

ABSTRACT

This study was designed to evaluate cytomegalovirus infection among pregnant women correlation with age and the trimester of pregnancy, venous blood was private laboratories during the period between December 2014 until March 2015. Randomly selected serum samples were tested for specific anti CMV antibodies (IgM&IgG) using commercial ELISA kit (Human, Germany). Series of 170 patient that included 90 patient had bad obstetric history and 80 pregnant women had primigravida that aborted in different time (1st, 2nd, 3rd trimester of pregnancy). The results of current study showed that the anti CMV IgM among group I, was (36.6%) 33 out of 90 higher than group II which was (32.5%) 26 out of 80 women. and anti CMV IgG in group II (77.5%) 62 out of 80, higher than in group I, which was (61.1%) 55 out of 90. While, anti CMV antibodies, IgM, IgG were 21 out of 90 (51.2%) in group I and 20 out of 80 (48.7%) in group II. The total of 170 women patients with mean age 27.7 years ranged between (16- 42) years consisted of 61% aged between (16 – 30) years, 38.9% aged between (31 -42) years for group I and 62.5% within (16 -30), 37.5% between (31 – 42) years. The gestational period for group I were 55.5%, 35.5%, 8.9% in the first, second and third trimester of pregnancy. It could be concluded from our study that the seroprevalence of CMV infection among pregnant women and high percentage of infections among those patients who extremely high level of ignorance about the disease. That’s why, every pregnant women should be tested for CMV serological status.

Keywords: CMV (Cytomegalo virus), bad obstetric history, primigravida, pregnant women.