... HIV infections in China [16] were infected by receiving blood or blood products (approximately totaling 69,550 ...whole blood col- lection practices[17]. The Blood Donation Law ...
... BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and syphilis are among the greatest threats to ...
... to blood safety because of their prolonged pres- ence in the blood as a carrier or latent ...abnormality. Bloodtransfusion accounts for 5–10% of HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa ...
... concern among parasitic diseases known or suspected to be transmitted by bloodtransfusion ...[8]. Transfusion-transmitted malaria can have serious consequences, as infection with Plasmodium ...
... BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and syphilis are among the greatest threats to ...
... voluntary donors in Thailand observed an overall anti- HCV seroprevalence of ...the prevalence of HCV among different countries and states in Nigeria could be due to differences in the socio ...
... the prevalence was lower when compared to studies conducted in Egypt ...to bloodtransfusion in Southern parts of Africa by virtue of low prevalence ...antibodies among apparently ...
... Kurdistan BloodTransfusion Center over a period of 8 years (between 2007 and ...All donors were classified as first time if they had a history of only one ...studied among the ...
... the donors were replacement blooddonors ...of blood donations were contributed by replacement donors [4, 14] with the intention to help a friend, relative or acquaintance who needed ...
... The sero-positive blood units were discarded as per guidelines of ...supported blood banks of Madhya Pradesh and donor’s particulars was collected, retrieved, tabulated, summarized and compared ...
... voluntary blood donation with male predominance. Amongst the blooddonors, seropositivity of HbsAg was highest followed by HCV, syphilis, HIV and ...the prevalence rate of HBV in the general ...
... TTIs amongblooddonors. In Kenya, national bloodtransfusion services (NBTS) rely mainly on young voluntary blooddonors, particularly secondary schools, colleges and ...
... identify donors with occult HBV infection who have isolated anti-HCV anti- ...the donors with an HBV infection in the ...of bloodtransfusion it is better to exclude all anti-HCV- positive ...
... tested TTI negative, which was similar to the findings of other studies on the demographic characteristics associ- ated with TTIs in China [4, 5]. According to bivariate lo- gistic regression analyses, our findings ...
... CMV infections was described for 13 blooddonors, revealing maximum DNA levels in plasma ranging from ⬍100 to 4,500 genomic equivalents/ml and a medium time to DNA clearance of 137 days ...(whole ...
... in Khartoum state during period from March to June 2015, 74 blooddonors who attended blood bank) were enrolled, Data was collected by using direct interviewing questionnaire; ethical ...
... (anti-HBs) among health care workers: The prevalence of anti-HBs positive among HCWs who were vaccinated or infected with HBV and develop immunity was found ...the prevalence of anti-HBs in ...
... MBL genes including (blaVIM, blaIMP and blaNDM) were screened among all isolates by multiplex polymer- ase chain reaction (PCR). Consequently, total DNA tar- geting both genomic and plasmid DNA was extracted with ...
... the prevalence rate of Giardia lamblia/ Helicobacter pylori co-infections in Khartoum State, ...the prevalence of ...pylori prevalence was higher in females (17 (17%)) than in males (13 ...