Immunological and Molecular Study of Human Metapneumovirus

The aim of the book is to identify the role of human Metapneumovirus in children with respiratory infections. This study was conducted on 100 patients with respiratory tract infections who were admitted to Al Zahra Teaching Hospital and the AL-Forat AL-Awsat Teaching Hospital in Najaf Governorate during the period November 2020 to February 2021, Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from patients to molecular diagnosis of human metapneumovirus by Real-Time-PCR, serum specimens were also collected from patients and control to measure the concentration of both TNF- and IL-10 using ELISA. The results obtained from nasopharyngeal samples were amplified by RT-PCR for the diagnosis of hMPV the percentage of samples were positive for the virus (53%) from (100) specimens.

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Wurood kadhim abed Al-khalidy hat einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Biowissenschaften vom College of Science der Universität Kufa und einen Master-Abschluss in Mikrobiologie vom College of Science der Universität Kufa. Sie arbeitete an der Imam Sadiq University und der Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University und lehrte an der Jaber bin Hayyan University of Medical and Pharmacy.