Research Article
Preoperative Serum IL-12p40 Is a Potential Predictor of Kasai Portoenterostomy Outcome in Infants with Biliary Atresia
Table 3
Toxoplasma and viral infections in the studied groups.
| | Characteristics | BA
() | Neglected BA
() | Non-BA
() | value |
| | Rubella IgM | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | | Rubella IgG | 13 (52) | 7 (35) | 17 (56.7) | 0.307 | | Toxoplasma IgM | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | | Toxoplasma IgG | 15 (60) | 4 (20) | 13 (43.3) | 0.026 | | Cytomegalovirus IgM | 1 (4) | 1 (5) | 7 (23.3) | 0.048 | | Cytomegalovirus IgG | 21 (84) | 16 (80) | 26 (86.7) | 0.82 | | Herpes simplex virus-1 IgM | 2 (8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.128 | | Herpes simplex virus-1 IgG | 14 (56) | 4 (20) | 19 (63.3) | 0.008 | | Herpes simplex virus-2 IgM | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | | Herpes simplex virus-2 IgG | 5 (20) | 6 (30) | 3 (10) | 0.201 |
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BA: biliary atresia; NA: not applicable.
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