Detection of Anti-Chlamydia pneumonia IgG and Anti-HSV-1 IgG antibodies in sample of Iraqi Behcet's disease patients

Abstract

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic inflammation with characterized lesion, including oral ulcer, skin lesion, genital lesion and ocular manifestation. It affects both genders. The etiologies of BD is unknown genetic, bacterial and viral have proposed as causative agents, for that reason the aim of this study to detect Anti-Herpes Simplex Virus-1(HSV-1) IgG antibody and Anti-Chlamydia pneumonia IgG antibody by ELISA in sera of seventy Iraqi patients and twenty Iraqi healthy control. 34.2% of patients have Anti-HSV-1 IgG antibody while 21.4% of patients have Anti-Chlamydia pneumonia IgG antibody, this lead to suggest that HSV-1 and Chlamydia pneumonia may be one of the etiological factor in BD.

Keywords

• Behcet's disease, chronic inflammation