Seroprevalence of in Pregnant Women Admitted to a State Hospital in Mersin, 2019.

Objective: This study aimed to retrospectively reveal the seroprevalence of in pregnant women with routine pregnancy follow-up.

Methods: Anti- IgM-IgG antibody values of pregnant women aged 16-49 years, who had routine pregnancy follow-up in January-December 2019 were analysed retrospectively.

Resultsresults: Of the 1.832 serum samples, in which the anti- IgG test was studied, 28.7% were found to be positive, 70.4% were negative and 0.9% was found to be suspicious. For anti- IgM, 0.7% of the 1.844 serum samples were evaluated as positive, 99.5% as negative and 0.1% as suspicious. The positivity rates was observed to increase as age decreases in anti- IgM (r=0.144, p=0.001), and the positivity rates increase as the age increases in the anti- IgG (r=0.061, p=0.001). In the nationality evaluation, the anti- IgM and IgG positivity rates were observed to be higher in Syrian pregnant women compared to Turkish pregnant women.

Conclusion: In our study, a significant portion of pregnant women were observed to be non-immune to the agent, and therefore informing these people about the protection methods from the parasite in order to prevent infection occurrence is important.