Seroprevalence of viral infectious diseases and associated factors in Korean patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Data on the immunoprotective status against measles, mumps, rubella, varicella zoster virus (VZV), hepatitis A virus (HAV), and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are still lacking. Therefore, we investigated the seropositivity rates for viral infectious diseases and the associated factors in Korean patients with IBD.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, serum immunoglobulin G antibody positivity rates against measles virus, mumps virus, rubella virus, VZV, HAV, and EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) were measured in patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis (UC) who first visited the IBD clinic. Seropositivity rates and their associated factors were analyzed.

Results

Between January 2016 a

SUBMITTER: Hong HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8747916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature