Dengue Virus and Blood Safety: A Mini-Review of Research Publications

The growing demand for donated whole blood and products to save lives has both health benefits risks recipients at the same time. Dengue virus, a re-emerging viral disease poses threat safety, it spread over 128 countries in world. Several studies have documented transfusion-transmitted (TT) dengue, with first cases being reported China 2002 Singapore 2008. To understand magnitude broader picture of dengue virus we conducted mini-review published literature from Scopus database. review focused on number publications related among donors. Using keywords ‘Dengue virus’ AND ‘Blood safety’, ‘ donors’ ‘Emerging infectious diseases’ “Blood safety” were used extract data database which was downloaded as CSV Excel file covering period 2004 2021. This followed by data-cleaning exercise descriptive analysis generate frequency publications. Most studies, can be seen review, concentrated tropical regions Globally, South America Asian had largest publications; while country level, Brazil India highest number. More research output witnessed during years 2014 2018. that experienced more frequent outbreaks disease, exception Africa, most work. Therefore, much work is needed protect safety donors Africa.