BACKGROUND Transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) pose a significant challenge for the availability and safety of blood transfusion. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for TTIs among blood donors in North Shewa zone, central North Ethiopia. METHODS A retrospective survey of blood donors' medical records was conducted from April 2014 to June 2017 to a...

background thalassemia patients are at risk of blood borne viral infections because of repeated transfusion of blood products. objectives we aimed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in these patients in zabol, iran. methods this study was conducted on 152 patients with thalassemia at the center of special diseases of zabol. demographic data were collected and serum...

Screening technologies aimed at identifying such transfusion transmissible infections (TTI) as hepatitis B and C, HIV-1,2 syphilis have been developing this has resulted in increased safety of applied hemotherapy. Our research goal was to analyze detection infectious markers donors the FMBA Blood Center over five years. We examined 167,389 samples donor blood taken from 53,093 its components by...

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors In the mid-1980s bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was recognized as an emerging prion disease of epidemic proportions in the United Kingdom. In April 1996, researchers in the UK announced that they had identified 11 patients with a new form of spongiform encephalopathy, now called variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). Since then, mo...

BACKGROUND Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are infections which are common in some communities in Southern Africa. It is important to screen blood donations for these infections. METHODS This is a retrospective study which involved reviewing of previous blood donation records ...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in susceptible patients is associated with serious morbidity and a high mortality. Transmission of cytomegalovirus infection through blood transfusion is markedly reduced by transfusion of CMV seronegative blood products, or by transfusion of leucodepleted blood products. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence CMV IgG and IgM antibodies among blood do...