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Varicella zoster virus infection increases the risk of developing SLE disease and the modulatory role of IL-10

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Last updated: 29 Mar 2025

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Human Microbial Interactions
Sustainable Development Goals
Virology

Abstract

Herpes zoster (HZ) is a viral infection that occurs following an initial infection with the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox. The virus remains latent in the nerve ganglia and can reactivate due to immune weakness or disorders in infected individuals. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease resulting from a specific immune disorder. Simultaneous infections of VZV and SLE have been reported in the literature. Additionally, most research published on scientific platforms has only compared samples from patients with SLE to those from healthy individuals. Through these two reasons above, three groups of patient samples were analyzed in this study: the first group consisted of individuals infected with herpes zoster, the second group included individuals with SLE, and the third group comprised healthy individuals. These groups and two immune markers interleukin-10 (IL-10) and IL-23 were compared with each other. The research aims to explore the potential underlying mechanisms that may link the reactivation of VZV and the presence of SLE, focusing on immunological and inflammatory pathways. The results of this research showed an increase in infections in females compared to males in both diseases. Moreover, there were no statistically significant differences between the two diseases when measuring the concentration levels of VZV IgG in each group of study models. However, there were statistically significant differences in the concentration levels of dsDNA antibodies between the groups, despite the small number of positive samples in the HZ group. As expected, there were statistically significant differences between both disease groups and the healthy group, with a negative correlation observed between the IL10 concentration levels in the HZ group and those in the SLE group.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2025.300134.1120

Keywords

autoimmune diseases, Diagnosis, herpes zoster, identification, SLE

Authors

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Al-Najafi

MiddleName

K. A.

Affiliation

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.

Email

mohammedkhaled247@gmail.com

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First Name

Huda

Last Name

AL-Khilkhali

MiddleName

J. B.

Affiliation

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.

Email

hudajameel@yahoo.com

City

najaf

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Volume

10

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

53711

Issue Date

2025-03-01

Receive Date

2024-07-12

Publish Date

2025-03-01

Page Start

170

Page End

180

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_414941.html

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414,941

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Original Article

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502

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Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

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Varicella zoster virus infection increases the risk of developing SLE disease and the modulatory role of IL-10

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Article

Created At

09 Mar 2025