Introduction and aim: Genital wart infection is a
distressing sexually transmitted infection that causes marked fear and stress to
both males and females. Tuberculin Purified protein derivative (PPD) injection is
an upcoming safe and effective modality for the treatment of genital warts.
Interleukin 17 (IL-17) was found to be lower in wart patients than controls. This
study aimed at measurement of serum level of IL-17 in genital warts patients
before and after PPD injection.
Patients and methods: The study was carried out as case-control
interventional study on 63 patients (37 males and 26 females) with genital warts
attending Dermatology and Andrology Clinics, faculty of medicine, Suez Canal
University hospitals. 50 controls were enrolled in the study. All patients have
injected 10 tuberculin units of PPD intradermally in the mother or largest warts
every 2 weeks till 6 sessions. Serum level of IL-17 was measured by Sandwich
ELISA technique to all patients before and after PPD injection and to all control
subjects.
Results: The mean age of patients was 30.8 years, the mean duration of
warts was 4.73 months, the mean number of warts was 9.76 warts and 14.3% of
patients experienced side effects to PPD. (58.7%) of patients were completely
recovered from warts. Mean serum IL-17 was 81.1
