Serological Detection of Human Parvovirus B19 in Thalassemia Patients of Wasit Province

Human ParvovirusB19 is nonenvelope single-strand DNA virussfrom a family of Parvoviridae that cause infections in human, it is related strongly to thalassemia. This case control (cross sectional) aged between (5-40) study was carried out in Al-Kut teaching hospital in Al-Iraq. The populations of our study included 120 patients samples with thalassemia infected by Human Parvovirus B19 in blood transfusion patients 64 male and 56 female and ELISA test was done. The positive cases was recorded according to enzyme linked immunosorbent assay test(ELISA) as apercentage of cases related to the main characterstics of patients, current study data has been indicated as following: in a total of 120 patients sample with thalassemia were included in this study, ELISA positive cases were 13 (10.8%), 6 (5%), 2 (1.7%) and 0 (0%) in the age groups (5-15), (16-25), (26-35) and (36-45) respectively. Male was more prevalent (14 (11.7%), than female (7 (5.8%), So as to records of major type in comparision to intermediate 15 (12.5%) and 6 (5%).