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:Herein, we examined the association between cytomegalovirus (CMV) coinfection and the progression of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and investigated the effect of CMV coinfection on JAK-STAT pathway. CMV DNAemia was detected by PCR in DNA from controls (n = 120), and HCV patients with early (F0-F1, n = 131) and late (F2-F4, n = 179) liver fibrosis. By quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR), we examined the profile of 8 JAK-STAT transcripts in PBMCs RNA from 90 HCV patients (39 CMV positive and 51 CMV negative), 4 CMV mono-infected patients, and 15 controls. Our results demonstrated higher incidence of CMV in F2-F4 group than in control (OR 5.479, 95% CI 3.033-9.895, p < 0.0001) or F0-F1 groups (OR 2, 95% CI 1.238-3.181, p = 0.005). qRT-PCR showed downregulation of STAT2 (p = 0.006) and IRF7 (p = 0.02) in CMV positive group compared to CMV negative one. The downregulation of STAT2 and IRF7 was mainly in CMV positive patients with late fibrosis compared to CMV negative patients (p = 0.0007 for IRF7 and p = 0.01 for STAT2). Our results are the first to report that CMV coinfection is a possible risk factor for the progression of HCV-induced liver fibrosis, and thereby CMV screening and treatment are important for HCV patients.
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Ibrahim MK,Khedr A,Bader El Din NG,Khairy A,El Awady MKdoi
10.1038/s41598-017-10604-7subject
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2017-09-04 00:00:00pages
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