CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODIES AMONG PREGNANTLADIESAT KAMAL ALSAMARRAI HOSPITAL IN BAGHDAD CITY/IRAQ

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is asymptomatic, and the essential CMV disease during pregnancy is
connected with various difficulties such as intrinsic contortions, intrauterine fetal demise and later squealsas visual
deficiency and deafness. This study aims to investigate the Frequacy of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) among
pregnant women in Kamal al-Samarrai Hospital between the period August and October 2015. The cross-sectional
study was done in Kamal al-Samarrai Hospital; serum was taken from pregnant patients, who were examined for
cytomegalovirus IgG and IgM antibodies by enzyme linked immunosorbent measure (ELISA).Age range of
selected patients was between 20 and 40 years.
A group of 132 pregnant patients was incorporated into this study, 29 of them with abortion history. The results
show that Out of 132, 124(93.2%) were positive for IgG,8(6.0%) were negative, 7 (5.3%) were positive for both
IgG and IgM and8 (6.0%) were negative for both antibodies. The present results concluded that The Frequency
of CMV demonstrated high prevalence of IgG among the patients and low of IgM, thus, there is a necessity for
voluntary screening to early detection of CMV infection to avoid the effects on the fetus and maternal health.