A novel coronavirus disease, which is transmitted from human to has quickly become the cause of current worldwide health crisis. This virus is, also known as SARS coronavirus, belongs Coronaviridae family viruses. The recent outbreak acute respiratory disorders starting in Wuhan, China found be caused by this virus. condition it, COVID-19 spread very rapidly all over world, causing so many deat...

Background: Thalassemia is an inherited disease. major patients are transfusion-dependent and very much prone to transfusion-transmitted viral infections. So, this study was conducted determine the prevalence various determinants, contributing in blood transfusion transmitted infection among them. Methodology: A 12-month longitudinal research on thalassemia who met inclusion criteria were regis...

Objective: The objective was to study the serological prevalence of post-transfusion transmitted infections such as hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and HIV among multi-transfused thalassemic individuals of the Eastern India and the socio and financial difficulties faced by them. Methods: The study was carried out from January 2012 until December 2014 involving 1711 thalassemic...

Transfusion of blood and blood products has been associated with transmission of infectious agents. However, it is probable that blood products are currently very safe and that pooled virus-inactivated products from remunerated donors are now safer than untreated single voluntary donor components. Although the transmission events of the past and the present are reasonably well understood, relia...

Infectious agents have long been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus. Common viruses, such as the Epstein-Barr virus, transfusion transmitted virus, parvovirus and cytomegalovirus, have an increased prevalence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. They may contribute to disease pathogenesis through triggering autoimmunity via structural or functional molecula...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an enterically transmitted virus; and several modes of transmission have been proposed, including blood transfusion, person to person transmission, and transplacental transmission. HEV during pregnancy is associated with an unfavorable prognosis for mothers and in severe cases can cause acute fulminate hepatitis and death. Transplacental transmission of HEV usually re...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an enterically transmitted virus; and several modes of transmission have been proposed, including blood transfusion, person to person transmission, and transplacental transmission. HEV during pregnancy is associated with an unfavorable prognosis for mothers and in severe cases can cause acute fulminate hepatitis and death. Transplacental transmission of HEV usually re...

Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood or blood products from one person to another. Blood transfusion can lead to the transfer of many infectious agents which can lead to Transfusion Transmitted Diseases. HBsAg is one of such infectious diseases, which leads to Hepatitis B Infection. The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA virus and a member of the hepadna family of viruses, and i...