MONITORING OF INFECTION CHANNELS OF HERPESVIRUSES AMONG THE POPULATION OF EASTERN UKRAINE

Abstract

Monitoring of infection channels of viruses family Herpesviridae among the population of Eastern Ukraine was performed in 2010-2012 by immunochemical and molecular genetic analysis methods. We analyzed the changes in this index towards the age and sex. We determined the frequency of detection of markers of different herpesvirus in pregnant women with normal pregnancy and manifestation of HSV infection. We marked the upward trend towards infectious of herpes among population of all the age groups by mean of retrospective analysis. We established the high rate of distirbution of herpes infections in the population of Donetsk and Zaporizhya regions in relation to other regions of Estern Ukraine. Key words: herpesviruses, pregnants, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, polymerase chain reaction, monitoring .