Seroprevalence and Risk of Primary Maternal HCMV Infection among Pregnant Women in Taiz City, Yemen

Seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus Among Pregnant Women in Ad-Dhale'e City - Yemen

“…On other hand, this low (3.8%) CMV IgM seroprevalence found in this study may be due to that vast majority of the participated pregnant women have been exposed to CMV infection early in their life, and by the time, they loss IgM when they reached child bearing age [35].This finding was in agreement with other studies from China (3.8%) and Yemen (2.0 %) [36,10], but it is lower than that reported in Palestine that was 11.5% [37] and in Nigeria that was 28.0% [29]. However, this seroprevalence rate is higher than that reported in Turkey and Iran that showed 1.7% and 1.0% respectively [16], [28].…”

“…Regarding the educational status, higher non-significant CMV IgG seroprevalence rate (96.1%) was in women with elementary educational level. This finding was similar with other studies [10,24,25]. However, low education level was considered as a risk factor for high CMV seroprevalence, and this finding could be explained by the presence of low socioeconomic status and low personal hygiene in the low educational level populations [26].…”

“…This study showed a high CMV IgG seroprevalence of 93.8%. However, this high seroprevalence rate was similar to that reported in the country; in Ibb, Hodeidah, Taiz and Sana'a city, in which a seroprevalence rates of 68%, 98.7%, 99%, and 100% were reported among pregnant women respectively [8][9][10][11]. In accordance with this result, a seroprevalence rate of more than 90% were reported from some Arabic countries such as Palestine [13], Saudi Arabia and Qatar [14], and from other countries such as Nigeria [15], and Turkey [16].…”

“…In Ad-Dhale'e city there is no available data about the seroprevalence of CMV among pregnant women, and the few studies from Ibb, Hodeidah, Taiz and Sana'a city, showed a seroprevalence rates ranged from 68%-100% [8][9][10][11].The basic data concerned CMV infections during pregnancy is of significant importance for health planners and care providers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of CMV infection in pregnant women in Ad-Dhale'e city.…”

Seroprevalence of Human cytomegalovirus among adult Population in Taiz city, Yemen

“…To our knowledge, one study only was conducted in Taiz city and showed that HCMV seroprevalence was 99% among pregnant females (Alsumairy et al, 2016). The current study aims to determine the seroprevlance of HCMV infection among adult population in Taiz city from March 2019 to December 2020.…”