Mohammadali F, Pourfathollah AA. Changes in frequency of HBV, HCV, HIV and syphilis infections among blood donors in Tehran province 2005 2011. Arch Iran Med 2014; 17(9)613-620 The routine screening of blood donors for potentially transmissible infections has reduced transfusion-associated infection whilst providing an insight into disease prevalence. This retrospective cross-sectional study ev...

Background Transfusion-transmissible infections such as hepatitis B virus (HBV) remain a major concern for the safety of blood transfusion. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess trend HBV prevalence and associated risk factors among first-time donor population in low endemic country. Study Design Methods Between 2010 2018, samples were collected from donors presented at collection sites Be...

despite importance of blood transfusion services as life saving procedures, some countries are unable to meet their national requirements for blood and blood components in a timely manner. since establishment of iran blood transfusion organization (ibto) in 1974 as an integral part of national health system, iran has experienced a drastic improvement both in availability and safety of blood and...

Background: Safety for blood Transfusion begins with healthy donors. A basic part of preventing transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) is to notify and counsel reactive This study analysed trends in the prevalence transfusion-transmissible infectious pathogens among donors them as well assess response rate them. Donor notification counselling protect health donor stop secondary transmission ...

Chemokines are a set of structurally related peptides that were first characterized as chemoattractants and have subsequently been shown to have many functions in homeostasis and pathophysiology. Diversity and redundancy of chemokine function is imparted by both selectivity and overlap in the specificity of chemokine receptors for their ligands. Chemokines have roles impacting transfusion medic...

Blood donations in England and Wales are collected from healthy donors who do not acknowledge factors associated with an increased risk of bloodborne infections. All donations issued for transfusion since the early 1970s have been tested for hepatitis B surface antigen as a marker of transmissible hepatitis B virus. These measures have resulted in low rates of transmission by transfusion but ha...

evaluation of trends in the rate of infectious diseases of blood donors is essential for monitoring safety of blood supply and effective screening of donors. transfusion records of blood donors who attended the center between 2002 and 2005 were reviewed for positive cases of hbs (by elisa), hiv (by western blot) and hcv (by elisa). during 2002–05, 507,531 persons donated blood. the prevalence r...

BackgroundBlood transfusion saves human lives, but also it can be a route for Transfusion-Transmissible Infections (TTIs) including Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), C (HCV), and syphilis.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the risk factors associated with TTIs among blood donors at Regional Centre Blood Transfusion (RCBT) of Karongi, Rwanda.MethodsThis was retrospe...

Background. Transfusion-transmissible infectious agents such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and syphilis are among the greatest threats to blood safety for the recipient and pose a serious public health problem. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis infections among blood...

BACKGROUND Increasing blood supply safety is one of the most important goals of blood services in the world. In this study, we reviewed the prevalence rate and the trends of three main infections in whole blood donations and strategies for improving blood safety in Yazd blood transfusion center, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross sectional study, data on hepatitis B, C and HIV infectio...