Background: Hepatitis B is the most common blood-borne viral infection that is considered as a major public health problem of the world's major health problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among blood donors referring to blood transfusion centers. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed on 216004 volunteer...

Equine piroplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by intra-erythrocyte protozoa, Theileria equi and Babesia caballi. The present study aimed to detect piroplasm infection in horses in Kurdestan Province, Iran, through molecular and microscopic approaches.n this study, 186 blood samples were randomly collected from horses of five regions of Kurdestan Province. The Tbs-S/Tbs-A primer set was us...

Canine babesiosis is a tickborne, protozoal, haemoparasitic disease. Babesia organisms are frequently classified as either large (B. canis) or small gibsoni). The aim of this study was an attempt to detect B. gibsoni DNA in blood samples taken from dogs suspected suffering tick-borne diseases. 216 were tested using PCR, which, 99 them canisDNA detected, whereas 3 detected. Positive PCR results ...

Background: Although regular frequent blood transfusion improves overall survival of multi-transfused patients like β-thalassemic ones, it carries a definite risk of infection with blood-borne viruses such as viral hepatitis. This study was done to determine seropositivity of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and Human Immunedeficiency Virus (HIV) infections among β-th...

In India, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a growing epidemic involving all sections of the society. Health care personnel are at increased risk of acquiring blood borne diseases like AIDS, hepatitis, etc. We aimed to assess the level of awareness of HIV infection among the paramedical staff working in a tertiary care hospital. A total number of 207 paramedical staff were asked to c...

background human t-lymphotropic virus type i (htlv-i) is one of the health threatening problems in endemic areas and can be transmitted by different routes such as blood transfusion. in order to correct chronic anemia in thalassemia subjects, they may need to get blood units per month. thus, they are at risk of infection with blood-borne viruses such as htlv-i. objectives in the present study, ...

background: equine piroplasmosis (ep) is the cause of persistent tick-borne infection with no symptoms, but the most important problem of ep is due to the persistent carrier state. carrier animals to babesia ( theileria ) equi (laveran 1901) and b. caballi (nuttall, 1910) infestation could be identified by extremely sensitive pcr-based method. the purpose of this study was to identify the causa...

For many vector-borne organisms, dogs can be used as sentinels to estimate the risk of human infection. The objective of this study was to use dogs as sentinels for multiple vector-borne organisms in order to evaluate the potential for human infection with these agents in southeastern Brazil. Blood from 198 sick dogs with clinicopathological abnormalities consistent with tick-borne infections w...

Tick-borne pathogens of the genus Theileria and Anaplasma has been widely distributed infect small ruminant in tropical subtropical countries. Several species are considered highly pathogenic, while some cause subclinical infections ruminants. The distribution data theileriosis anaplasmosis Samigaluh, Kulon Progo remain scarce poorly understood. Therefore, further investigations required to con...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of HCV infection in people with hemophilia is substantially higher than that in the general population (63% - 98%). Multiple transfusions and substitutive therapy have also been linked to a high risk of HBV and HIV transmission. However, the prevalence of other blood-borne viral infections in this population is less well known. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess t...