Investigation of Relationship between Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders with Infections Agents
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Aim: Considering the results of epidemiological studies, claimed that some congenital and postpartum infections in the intrauterine period, especially in 2nd Trimester, may play a role for the occurrence of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder(BD). Aim of our study; serum samples of schizophreni-BD patients and healthy asymptomatic donors, Toxoplasma gondii (T.gondii), Chlamydia pneumoni (C.pneumoniae), Chlamydia trachomatis (C.trachomatis), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Herpes simplex Virus(HSV1-HSV2), Treponema pallidum (T.pallidum) and Barnavirus which associated with psychic disorders evaluated using serological diagnostic methods and investigated the possible relationship of infections.
Material and Methods: In this study, ELISA method was used for seroprevalence of congenital and postpartum infections. Also, Sandwich EIA method was used for Endogenous Bornavirus Like Nucleoprotein1(EBLN1) in peripheral blood samples.
Results: Serum samples from 258 patients consisting of 96 female-162 male observed in psychiatry clinics and from healthy asymptomatic 150 donors including 100 male-50 female who came to the blood centers to donate blood. A significant difference wasn’t detected among seropositivity rates of CMV, HSV1-HSV2 and T.pallidum for patients and control groups. In statistical aspects, seroprevalence of T.gondii and C.pneumoniae in patients(93.02%-68.99%) were found significantly higher than the seropositivity rate of the control groups(63.33%-50%). Despite C.trachomatis showed a statistically significant difference between patients and control group of women compared to patients and control group of men, but significant difference weren’t detected in whole investigated population. BVLN1 was detected 4 men(2.46%) in the patient group.
Conclusion: Based on study results, T.gondii and C.pneumoniae carry higher risk in patients with schizophrenia and BD compared to control ones.
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Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
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Araştırma Makalesi
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Eylül 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
6 Ocak 2017
Kabul Tarihi
12 Ocak 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 31