Prevalence of rubella virus in pregnant women in Kirkuk city-Iraq

0bjective:determination of anti-rubella igm and igg seropositivity and susceptibility rates among pregnant women with the history of abortion & women without the history of abortion. subjects and method: a total of ninety pregnant women (sixty-four pregnant women who had previous abortion; and twenty-six pregnant women without the history of abortion), there age was ranged between (18-40) year; were enrolled in the present study which was conducted during the period of 15 march to 23september /2013. all obtained sera from all participants were tested using elisa method for determine of rubella virus antibodies. data was analyzed, using spss software (chi square) and anova test. results: the results revealed that the rubella virus-igg seropositivity among pregnant women with previous abortion was 37(57.8%).in addition, the results showed that the percentage rate of the rubella virus-igm seropositivity among pregnant women with previous abortion and without the history of abortion were 17(26.6%) & 1(3.8%) respectively. the study showed that there was no significant correlation between antirubella virus antibodies (igm,igg ( and the age, also in the current study , among the studied groups there was a significant positive correlation between anti-rubella virus antibodies)igm,igg(and the number of abortion. conclusion: there was no effect of age on the seroprevalence of anti-rubella igm and igg in the studied groups.