An investigation on the condition of ToRCH infections in Jinhua City from 2002 to 2005

Objective The study was designed to gain insight into the epidemic situation of TORCH infection in Jinhua city from 2002 to 2005 in order to provide a science basis for the for-mulation of the measures of future prevention of infection rate from increasing．Methods Retro-spective analysis of the epidemiology was made 0n the situation of TORCH infection in Jinhua city in past four years．Results 5191 cases of TORCH was tested from 2002 to 2005，with 615 cases of positive result，positive rates of antibodies of 11.85％，predominantly infected by HSV(I.II)and Tox，accounting for 48.46％(298/615) and 28.78％(177/615) of total positive results of Torch re-spectively，positive rates of HSV-IgM of 3.85％，5.56％，6.08％，6.51％ respectively，and there being an slow upward trend in the positive rates (PP<0.01)。Conclusion The emphasis should be placed on preventing the infection rate of HSV.TOX from increasing，and the key measure to prevention of TORCH infection is to change the bad lifestyles．