© Viral Hepatit Dergisi, Ga le nos Ya y› ne vi ta ra f›n dan ba s›l m›fl t›r. / Viral Hepatitis Journal, pub lis hed by Ga le nos Pub lis hing. ABS TRACTObjective: Hepatitis A is the most common form of acute viral hepatitis in the world. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) clinical presentations range from asymptomatic infection to fulminant hepatitis which is frequently seen in pregnant women. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of hepatitis A and E transmitted fecal oral in adult population admitted to the hospital. Materials and Methods: It were retrospectively evaluated to test results of the patients admitted to the hospital for various reasons and requested to anti-HAV IgG and anti-HAV IgM, anti-HEV IgG and anti-HEV IgM assay between January December. It was studied by Advia Centaur XP Bayer-Siemens (Germany). Results: It was found as %85.2 (3310/3887) to Anti-HAV IgG seropositivity, %0.51 (20/3887) to Anti-HAV IgM seropositivity, %6.7 (18/270) Anti-HEV IgG seropositivity, %0.7 (2/270) Anti-HEV IgM seropositivity. HAV seropositive patients was admitted 42% to infectious diseases, 22.4% to internal medicine, 25.8 % to other internal branchs, 3.4% to general surgery, 4.5% other surgical branches and 1,9% to emergency service, respectively. HEV seropositive patients was admitted 39% to infectious diseases, 33% to general surgery, 17% to gastroenterology clinics, respectively. Conclusion: In this study was found to Anti-HAV IgG seropositivity was lower than the average of our country and Anti-HEV IgG seropositivity average country in adults. Protection from infection which transmitted fecal-oral rout, especially the beginning of HEV infections; cause of high mortality in pregnant, training, sanitation precautions and environmental hygiene must be actually considered. GirişHepatit A virus (HAV) ve Hepatit E virus (HEV) primer olarak fekal oral yolla bulaşırlar (1). Virus kontamine gıda ve sular veya süt alımı sonrası kolayca bulaşabilmektedir (2). HAV, HEV'e göre daha dayanıklı olmakla birlikte dezenfektanlara ve ısıya karşı dirençli olduğundan bulaşıcılığı yüksektir. Her iki virus da genellikle akut, kişinin kendisiyle sınırlı, uzun süreli taşıyıcılık oluşturmayan enfeksiyonlara neden olurlar (1). Taşıyıcılık söz konusu olmamasına rağmen enfekte bireylerin dışkısında altı aydan uzun süreyle virus bulunabilmesi, uygunsuz sanitasyon koşullarında enfeksiyonun yayılmasında en önemli kaynağı oluşturmaktadır (3).
Objective: Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) with various clinical outcomes. Serological tests determining IgG and IgM produced against T. gondii are widely used for laboratory diagnosis of the infection. IgG avidity test identifying the infection initiation in diagnosis is required when specific IgM antibodies are not able to be detected in early period of infection, IgM antibodies in patients with reactivation are not increased or especially in pregnant with IgM positivity. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate avidity test results and to determine the algorithmic place of this test in T. gondii infection. Methods:In this study, avidity test results requested from all of the clinics and services from serology laboratory in 1 January 2013-31 December 2013 were included. Totally, 84 anti-T. gondii IgG avidity was requested. The avidity value was researched by ELISA method using anti-T. gondii IgG avidity kit in patients included in this study. Anti-T. gondii IgG and IgM antibody tests were performed by ELISA method using commercial kit.Results: 61, 13 and 2 requests were evaluated as high avidity 72.6%, low avidity 15.5% and intermediate value 2.4%, respectively, while 8 requests were unnecessary. Conclusion:It was concluded that primarily anti-T. gondii IgG and IgM tests should be performed in suspicious cases in terms of toxoplasmosis and the IgG avidity tests should be requested from only suitable cases after the evaluation of the test results according to clinic table of the patients and/or the week of pregnancy.
In this study in which we evaluated the anti-T. gondii tests of the year 2012 retrospectively, the prevalence of anti-T. gondii IgM and IgG antibodies were fond in order of 2.7-32.4%.
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