background and objective: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease of worldwide distribution and has great economic importance. despite its control in many countries, it remains endemic in iran. brucellosis was investigated in many high risk occupational groups; however, few studies on the prevalence of brucellosis among blood donors are available. to determine the seroprevalence of brucellosis antibo...

introduction:blood-borne infectious agents are one of the main anxieties of blood transfusion organization in all countries. according to who, the blood healthy and blood safety is included ensuring and monitoring of quality and efficiency for all patients requiring blood transfusion. we at the current study intend that survey prevalence hiv ab, hcv ab, hbs ag among blood donors refer to the bl...

the clinical significance of abo and rhesus blood group systems has been well documented. the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of abo and rhesus blood groups in blood donors in lahore, pakistan, with a view to generate data with multipurpose future practicalities in the field of medicine. blood groups of 3000 blood donors were determined by commercially available standard ...

objectives the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of anti-hbc and hbsag in blood donors. further, the study aimed to estimate the anti-hbc level at which hbv dna is detected in putative obi cases, as well as to search for mutations in the “a” determinant associated with the non-detection of hbsag in serum. conclusions we observed that as the anti-hbc levels increase, there...

background: this study aimed at determining the prevalence and associated risk factors for asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia and anemia among blood donors in a private medical laboratory in benin city, nigeria. methods: venous blood was collected from a total of 247 blood donors. malaria status, abo, rhesus blood groups and hemoglobin concentration of all participants were determined using stan...

introduction and aims: considering high prevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv) in iran and need for its prevention, determination of causes and risk factors can help health policy makers in control of disease. materials and methods: all blood donors of tehran city from april 1997 to march 2000 were studied in a case control design. hbsag positive donors who were referred to hepatitis consultatio...

background: unsafe transfusion practices put patients at high risk of transfusion transmissible infections. we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections (including human immunodeficiency virus [hiv] 1 and 2, hepatitis b virus [hbv], hepatitis c virus (hcv) and syphilis) during a period of 18 months among blood donors in the blood bank of lady hardinge medical coll...

the transfusion transmitted infections are potentially dangerous complications of transfusion therapy in immunocompromised patients. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of transmissible infections in blood donor population in kashan, iran. a total of 600 consecutive sera were tested for cmv-igm antibody, hbsag, hepatitis b core (hbc) antibody, hepatitis c (hcv) antibody, and h...

conclusions the analysis indicates that the hev isolated from blood donors in the southwest of iran belongs to genotype 1. however, more samples from other geographic regions of iran are needed to confirm these findings. because transmission of hev by administration of blood or blood components is likely to occur, it may be sensible to screen donor blood for hev to eliminate transfusion-transmi...