BACKGROUND The identification of safe and effective alternatives to blood transfusion is a public health priority. In sub-Saharan Africa, blood shortage is a cause of mortality and morbidity. Blood transfusion can also transmit viral infections. Giving tranexamic acid (TXA) to bleeding surgical patients has been shown to reduce both the number of blood transfusions and the volume of blood trans...

Background & objectives: Female sex workers (FSWs) of north-east India form a unique group as they are exposed to an enormous injecting drug user (IDU) clientele. This association makes them more vulnerable to blood borne viral infections. Over and above some of them also indulge in drug injecting practices along with their partners. The present study was carried out on FSWs to assess the preva...

Objective : to study the clinical and epidemiological features medical social aspects of viral hepatitis B C in workers. Materials methods analysis outpatient inpatient records workers with a diagnosis chronic B, C, + D various stages degrees activity, registered at Republican Center Occupational Pathology Republic Tatarstan consultative diagnostic department Infectious Clinical Hospital named ...

The incidence of blood-borne viral diseases has decreased over the last several years, but the risk of blood-borne bacterial diseases has remained the same. Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) is a longstanding problem in transfusion medicine. The reported incidence of clinically relevant reactions to contaminated ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 4 (2015) pp. 805-812 http://ww...

context: detection of causative pathogen is crucial for treatment strategies in most infections. molecular diagnosis as a more sensitive and specific method, has become the best option to investigate certain pathogens, mainly viruses. recent scientific and technological approaches resulted in changing the area of diagnostic microbiology. evidence acquisition: a comprehensive online search of da...

Although the importance of rodents as reservoirs for a number of tick-borne infections is well established, comparatively little is known about the potential role of shrews, despite them occupying similar habitats. To address this, blood and tick samples were collected from common shrews (Sorex araneus) and field voles (Microtus agrestis), a known reservoir of various tick-borne infections, fro...

Around 118.5 million blood donations are collected annually to save precious lives. The donated may also be associated with blood-borne infections. With around 247 population, Pakistan is an endemic country for viral hepatitis, and there a high risk of having asymptomatic donors among healthy donors. Viral hepatitis 2.5% prevalent in the general donation its screening have become grave health c...