Serological evaluation of prevalence of TORCH amongst antenatal mothers attending a rural tertiary care hospital

: Infections due to agents like , virus, virus (CMV), (HSV) [TORCH] are important causes of bad obstetric outcome (spontaneous abortions, still births, pre term delivery and congenital anomalies) in antenatal mothers. Such infection adults pregnant women very mild or even asymptomatic but serious consequences the foetus. Serological tests usually ELISA is main mode diagnosis. To evaluate role infections TORCH causing pregnancy loss BOH (bad history) A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted identify as a causative factor with history attending our Antenatal OPD from March 2019 August 2019. Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) done 97 serum samples such Our observation revealed that maximum found mothers aged between 26-30 years (50/97 i.e.51.55%)The IgM seropositivity detected mostly against CMV--09/97 cases (9.28%) abortion be commonest showing both CMV . This helps us draw conclusion an cause should routinely screened.