Hepatitis B Virus Blood Screening: Need for Reappraisal of Blood Safety Measures?

Hepatitis B Virus Blood Screening: Need for Reappraisal of Blood Safety Measures?

Over the past decades, the risk of HBV transfusion-transmission has been steadily reduced through the recruitment of volunteer donors, the selection of donors based on risk-behavior evaluation, the development of increasingly more sensitive hepatitis B antigen (HBsAg) assays, the use of hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc) screening in some low-endemic countries, and the recent implementation o...

Hepatitis E screening for blood donations: an urgent need?

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 November 15, 2014 1729 In The Lancet, Patricia Hewitt and colleagues report the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA in 225 000 blood donations from southeast England. Their study was based on HEV RNA detection by means of reverse transcriptase real-time PCR in minipools of 24 donations or fewer collected in a 1-year period (2012–13). They defi ned the rate of tra...

Decline of Hepatitis B Virus in Iranian Blood Donors in the Last Decade (2001-2010)

Background and Aims: This study was the trends of Hepatitis B infection among Iranian blood donors which was analyzed in a period of 10 years. Materials and Methods: In a period of 10 years, from 2001 through 2010, a total of 16,264,830 donations from 30 regional and 35 local blood services were screened. All blood samples were tested for Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBs Ag) by commercial avail...

Safe Blood Transfusion: Screening for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections in Potential Blood Donors in Rural Southeast Asia

Risk factors of hepatitis B virus infection among blood donors in Duhok city, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a public health problem. The lack of information about the seroprevalence and risk factors is an obstacle for preventive public health plans to reduce the burden of viral hepatitis. Therefore, this study was conducted in Iraq, where no studies had been performed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HBV infection. Methods: Blood sample...