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Jasim Mohammed Muhsin1 , Sura O. Yousif2, Ameer M. Hadi3 and Ahmed Rahman Rawdhan4

1Middle Technical University, Health and Medical Technology College, Baghdad, Iraq.
2Technical Institute, Suwaira, Middle Technical University, Wasit, Iraq.
3University of Babylon, DNA Research Center, Babylon, Iraq.
4Shiekh Zayed Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
J Pure Appl Microbiol, 2019, 13 (2): 1003-1010 | Article Number: 5606

https://dx.doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.13.2.37 | © The Author(s). 2019 

Received: 04/04/2019| Accepted: 20/05/2019 | Published: 11/06/2019
Abstract

Subsequently, the early reactivation or old human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection may be interfere with IgE and interleukin-33 (IL-33) levels disturbances throughout the life intervals and act as synergistic factors to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of various diseases; like asthma or coronary heart diseases (CHD). The main subject of the current study was to determine the role of CMV infection onto IgE levels and IL-33 disturbances in the pathogenesis of asthma and atherosclerosis as a case-control study. A total of 175 participants were with a mean age of 38.17 ± 7.51 years [age range: 26–52] years, which were distributed as patients with atherosclerosis (n=50) and asthmatic patients (n=50) as the cases of our study and 75 healthy subjects as a control group. Both groups of asthmatic and atherosclerosis patients show a significant association with the seropositivity of CMV-IgG which was detected in 33 (18.9%) and 30 (17.1%). While, CMV-PP65 Ag which was detected in 26 (14.9%) and 28 (16.0%) respectively (P < 0.0001).  High level of abnormal IL-33 was detected in 36 (20.6%) with 45 (25.7%) of abnormal IgE was determined in patients with asthma followed by 26 (14.9%) and 44 (25.1%) for abnormal levels of IL-33 and IgE respectively in patients with atherosclerosis. Furthermore, there was a positive significant association between the seropositivity of CMV-IgG and CMV-PP65 Ag with abnormal IgE and IL-33 levels in the pathogenesis of asthma and atherosclerosis (P < 0.0001), and impact of our study support the hypothesis that previous cytomegalovirus infection or early reactivation with unregulated IL-33 expression or high IgE level play a significant role in the pathogenesis of coronary heart diseases and asthma.

Keywords

Allergy, Coronary heart diseases (CHD), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Interleukin (IL-33), IgE.

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