Cent Eur J Public Health 2001, 9(2):106-108

Frequency of occurrence of cytomegalovirus and Chlamydia pneumoniae in lymphocytes of atherosclerotic patients

Al-Amro A.A.¹, Al-Jafari A.A.¹, Al-Fagih M.R.², Tajeldin M.², Qavi H.B.¹

¹ Department of Biochemistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

² Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Cardiac Surgery Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Forty-three blood samples from atherosclerotic donors and 28 samples from normal individuals were analyzed to determine the frequency of occurrence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA sequences in lymphocytes of Saudi Arabian donors using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). In non-atherosclerotic donors, no CMV DNA was detectable and only one sample was positive for C-pneumoniae DNA sequences. Of the 43 atherosclerotic patients, 22 were infected with CMV, 23 were infected with C-pneumoniae and 11 showed no infection. Thirteen of the 43 donors showed simultaneous infection with both CMV and C-pneumoniae. These results demonstrate that atherosclerotic patients are more frequently infected with CMV or C-pneumoniae or both.

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