1Dept. of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Babylon, Iraq
A total of (96) lavage specimens were taken from patients with ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), and bronchioalviolar lavage (BAL), during the period from February to June (2018) admitted to the Al-Hillah General Teaching Hospital, Al-Imam Al-Sadiq Hospital and Tiba Center. Among them 23(20.67%) of samples were found to be with CMV pathogens. Quantitative real time PCR technologies have demonstrated accuracy in measuring systemic HCMV loads; in this study 23(23.9%) Patients, of them 14(60.8) in respiratory ICU patients (VAP), versus 9(39%) in (BAL), the percent in male was 17(73.9%) while in female was 6(26%).
Cytomegalovirus, ventilator associated pneumonia, broncheoalviolar lavage, real time PCR
