A study on incidence of thalassemia in Port Said - Egypt using complete blood counts (CBC), a modified osmotic fragility test (OF-test) and a direct PCR on whole blood cell lysates | ||||
Delta Journal of Science | ||||
Article 9, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2013, Page 55-60 PDF (860.55 K) | ||||
Document Type: Research and Reference | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/djs.2013.139642 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Akram M. Abouzied1; Amany A. Ibrahim2; Ahmed A. El-Lwah3; Zohour I. Nabil4 | ||||
1Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. | ||||
2Medical Lab El-Lwah, Saad Zaghloul St, Port Said, Egypt | ||||
3Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
4Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
In order to study the incidence of thalassemia in Port Said - Egypt, we have used complete blood counts (CBC) and a combination of a modified onetube osmotic fragility test (OF-test) followed by a direct PCR analysis on whole blood cell lysates. One hundred and eighty adult Port Said subjects from different regions were screened. Fifty nine of the 180 subjects (32.8%) were positive for a modified OF-test. They all had significant CBC analysis as compared to the OFtest negative group. A successful identification of thalassemia using a 0.34% buffered saline OF-test prior to PCR-based genotyping on cell lysates was demonstrated. Among the 59 OF-test positive subjects, 8 resided unrelated cases were successfully observed to be thalassemic subjects. Our prospective study in 180 adult subjects confirms the expected incidence of α- thalassemia and β-thalassemia types in Port Said limited population which has not been reported before. The purpose to study the incidence of thalassemia in Port Said is making it applicable to a large-scale screening program in Egypt population, to give more insight into the origin and thalassemia mutations underlying these incidences, and to meet the short and long term goals of thalassemia prevention and management. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Modified osmotic fragility test; thalassemia; thalassemia incidence; whole blood PCR | ||||
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