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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.52</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Study of Prevalence and Some Immunological Characteristics
of Cytomegalovirus Infections among Pregnant Women</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Hadi Saleh</surname>
                        <given-names>Rashaa</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Abd Al-Hussien</surname>
                        <given-names>Eman Fadhel</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Abulrdia Ighawish</surname>
                        <given-names>Zaytoon</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">College of Pharmacy, University of Babylon, Iraq.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">College of Biotechnology, Al-Qasim Green University, Iraq.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">College of Medicine Babylon, University of Babylon, Iraq.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1483</fpage>
            <lpage>1487</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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                </license>
            </permissions>
            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/study-of-prevalence-and-some-immunological-characteristics-of-cytomegalovirus-infections-among-pregnant-women/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Cytomegalovirus1(CMV)i is one of the essential causes o of intrauterine contagions.
The contagion is commonly asymptomatic in immunocompotent adults, but its import in
various times elevated when it happens throughout pregnancy. Pregnant women with CMV i
infection can be responsible for abortion or congenital malformation. This subject was aimed
to estimate the prevalence of cytomegalovirus virus amid pregnant women in Babylon province
and evaluation of some haematological and immunological parameters in women infected with
CMV. The study was conducted on (145) pregnant women referred to the Babylon Teaching
Hospital for Maternity and Children to investigate the prevalence of Cytomegalovirus in Babylon
province. Overall of (145) pregnant women was contained in this study, CMV specific IgM and
IgG antibody were detected by minividas-test. Blood hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, neutrophil
and lymphocyte accounts were determinate. Single radial immune diffusion plates were used for
assessment of C3 and C41 level in infected women. Among 145 pregnant women were evaluated
for CMV, (95.1%) were positive toward I IgG and (4.1%) were positive toward I IgM. Most of
CMV infections among women with age ranging between 20-29 years. It was found that there
was a increase in the lymphocyte count and complement components C3 and decrease in the
C4 level among CMV patients compared to control group, while haemoglobin and neutrophile
level appeared normal. This study summarized that there are increasing seropositivity rate
for r human cytomegalovirus amid pregnant women The prevalence of CMV was relatively
high in our locality.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>CMV, IgM, IgG</kwd>
        <kwd>Pregnant women</kwd>
			<kwd>Babylon</kwd>
         </kwd-group>
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