Pattern of Cytomegalovirus among Yemeni Population

The Cytomegalovirus is highly prevalent worldwide, the prevalence varied according to country and the epidemiological factors and ranged from 100% in both Africa and Asia to 80% in Europe and North America. CMV establishes lifelong latency that can lead to periodic reactivation spontaneously or in conditions where immunity is suppressed. In addition, CMV can be easily transmitted from person to person by direct contact, with saliva, semen, vaginal fluids, blood, urine, tears, feces, and maternally from pregnant women to infant or by breast milk feeding. CMV infections are could be a symptomatic or asymptomatic. In fetuses CMV can cause severe disease and disabilities with mortality rate 20% to 30% and 10% to 15% of congenitally infected infants will have symptoms at birth. In Yemen the prevalence rate of CMV IgG among pregnant women ranged from 94.6% to 98.7 %.Compared from 97.9% to 100% among healthy adult male and female were seropositive for CMV IgG respectively. In our country methods of prevention and protection against CMV are still completely absent, as blood is transfused without screening blood donors for CMV, which has exacerbated of the problem and required us to conduct in-depth and more comprehensive studies to highlight the problem regarding CMV. So we aimed this study to determine the pattern of Cytomegalovirus among Yemeni population.