Cytomegalovirus Igg Levels In Cancer And Non Cancer Patients Attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria

📄 Project Abstract

Cytomegalo virus is a ubiquitious virus, it presents an asymtomatic infection in the immunocompetent host, but in an immunocompromised patients it causes morbidity and sometimes mortality in these types of patients.This study investigates cytomegalovirus IgG among cancer patients attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria. A total of 267 blood samples were collected for the study. 178 samples were collected from cancer patients and 89 samples from non cancer patients (controls). Dermographic and other clinic information of the patients were taken in to account using the questionnaire. Samples were collected for a period of three months. The case studies were histopathologically confirmed cancer cases and a control population from non- cancer patients. Blood samples were collected in a sterile plain container,centrifuged, and sera was obtained. These sera were stored in the freezer untill all the 267 samples were collected. Sera samples were screened against CMV IgG, HIV...