Helicobacter pylori infection in pregnant women and it’s correlation with the alterations of some trace elements levels in the serum at Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral-shaped pathogenic bacterium found on the human gastric mucosa, Warren and Marshall isolated H pylori for the first time in 1982. It is one of the most common worldwide human infections [1]. H. pylori play a vital role in the development of chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastric adenocarcinoma, and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma [2]. The current study included (120) pregnant women, (50) positive anti -H. Pylori Ig and (70) negative anti- H. Pylori Ig with pregnancy for first, second and third semester at mean age/ years 28.36 for the positive anti-H. Pylori and 26.17 for the negative anti-H. Pylori appeared that an alteration of zinc level in serum of positive anti- H. Pylori Ig groups was (48.904 ± 18.3486) (μg/dl) comparing with the negative groups (90.757 ± 9.2727) with the highly significant difference (P < 0.01). While serum copper levels of positive anti-H. Pylori Ig group was (μg/dl), (100.412 ± 23.8234), documented as normal highly significant (P < 0.01) compared to the negative anti- H. Pylori Ig group (114.971 ± 20.4995).In this study, the GIT disorder with anti-H. Pylori Ig positive groups were (32, 64%) and anti-H. Pylori Ig negative groups were (32, 45.7%), with significant difference (P < 0.05).