Performance of Serological Diagnosis of TORCH Agents in Aborted versus non aborted Women of Waset province in Iraq (original) (raw)

The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between prevalence of TORCH (Toxoplasma gondii, Rubella virus, Cytomegalovirus, Herpes simplex virus) infections and abortion in pregnant women in Waset government of Iraq. Three hundred blood samples were collected from women having bad obstetric history (BOH) out of 300, 162 have a history of spontaneous abortion, serum was separated and tested for IgM antibodies against TORCH using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) .In abortion women IgM seropositivity was found as Toxoplasma 54% (P <0.05), Rubella_62.3% (P <0.05), CMV_60.2% (P> 0.05) and HSV_73.9% (P> 0.05). High percentage of repeated abortion (two and three or more) see in women seropositivity for CMV IgM and Rubella IgM 12.4% (P> 0.05) 5.7% (P <0.05) re-spectively, CMV and HSV infection have a statistically significant correlation with the inci-dence of abortion in addition the significant role of CMV infection of repeated abortion. So routine screen...