Background and Objective: Blood transfusion is a prevalent life-saving intervention that replaces blood or blood-products lost in severe malnutrition, infections, during surgical procedures, obstetrical emergencies and blood disorders or trauma. Transfusion of infected blood remains a public health concern. With all interventions aimed at reducing transfusion transmissible infections (TTIs), it...

Introduction: Transfusion of blood and its components is a life- saving manoeuvre but has life threatening hazards as well. Blood Service (BTS) covered by “Drug Cosmetics Act” legal implications. Hence, strict criteriae are followed while selecting donor, particularly emphasising on Transmissible Infections (TTI), which may improve safe transfusion practices. Aim: To study the seroprevalence Hu...

Bacteria and parasites transmissible by blood transfusion Long before the transmission ofHIV became a prominent potential hazard Bacteria of blood transfusion, considerable skill in preventing the transmission of * Treponema pallidum (syphilis) infection by transfusion had already been developed in the Blood * Brucellosis (donors giving a history are Transfusion Service. The first and most impo...

Although gay men in Sydney are generally well-informed about HIV and their own serostatus, their knowledge of other sexually transmissible infections (STIs)—including their own infection and vaccination history— appears to be much lower, according to an ongoing study of HIV-negative gay men. These findings suggest a need for more education around STIs to complement recently-introduced guideline...

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