Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections among Blood Donors at a Tertiary Care Centre in Maharashtra, India
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
Introduction: Blood transfusion is an important mode of infection. Transfusion transmissible infections continue to be a great threat to safe transfusion practice. Our study aims at evaluation of the pattern of various transfusion transmissible infections at the blood bank of our tertiary care hospital Material and Methods: It is a retrospective type of study over a period of 4 years from April 2013 to March 2017. We studied the frequency, age wise and gender wise distribution and year wise trend of seroprevalence of transfusion transmissible infections in the blood units donated at our blood bank Results: Total 16152 blood units were donated at our blood bank during the study period, of which 253 blood units (1.5%) were positive for infectious marker. The seropositivity was 1.15% for Hepatitis B virus, 0.24% for Human immunodeficiency virus, 0.11% for Hepatitis C virus and nil for syphilis. There was single case of co-infection for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus. The percentage of seropositivity was 1.53% (241/15775) in males and 0.53% (2/377) in females. Seropositivity was highest in the age group of 28-37 years followed by that of 18-27 years. It showed decreasing trend over the four years of study. Conclusion: Voluntary blood donation and diligent donor selection are important to increase blood safety and avoid transmission of infectious diseases through blood transfusion.
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Sulhyan Kalpana R, Anvikar Arti R, Ratnaparkhi Aaditi D
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