BACKGROUND Transfusion-transmissible infections such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C are among the greatest threats to blood safety for transfusion recipients and pose a serious public health problem. The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiological aspects of hepatitis B and C in Kazakhstani donor's blood over the period 2000-2011. METHODS The data were obtained from the annual reports...

Four patients with chronic post-operative wound infections and wound gapping that failed to respond to antibiotics were treated by allogeneic macrophage transfusions. No harmful effects were observed following macrophage transfusion and the chronic infections were eradicated in the treated patients with complete healing of wounds. Haemoglobin and white cell count were increased after cell trans...

of donors who have uncommon red cell serology, rare blood groups or abnormal transfusion-transmissible infections. All he blood donation process is much more complex than is enerally imagined and does not end with the departure of he donor from the donation center; the process transcends ar beyond that. Without being aware of the fact, the donor ay depart with a memory that the experience was o...

OBJECTIVES To study the prevalence of HBsAg, Anti-HCV, HIV, Syphilis and Malaria in blood donors. METHODS This is a cross sectional descriptive study, conducted at Blood bank and Transfusion center at Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS) Hyderabad, during the period from January, 2014 to June, 2015. A total of 4683 blood donors were screened for HBsAg, Anti-HCV and HIV on A...

Aim: Overall the risk of transfusion transmitted infections has decreased, especially viral infections like HIV and hepatitis B and C. Bacterial contamination of blood and its cellular components, however, remains a common microbiological cause of transfusion associated morbidity and mortality. Platelets pose a special risk given their preservation methods. The incidence of these episodes needs...

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood. To prevent secondary transmission through blood components, several countries have started to exclude as donors persons who have received a blood transfusion. We investigated the effectiveness of this measure by using a dynamic age-structured model. It is the first such model based on epidemiologic data: 1) blood donor acti...