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...

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are the main causes of severe liver failure worldwide. This study was conducted to evaluate the incidence rate and trend of these infections over six successive years from 2008 to 2013 in Ilam Province, western Iran. Methods: We studied the registered data of HBV and HCV based on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveil...

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background: thalassemia syndromes are the most common genetic disorders in the world. they happen due to genetic defects in process of haemoglobin synthesis, and would be classified to many groups mainly α and β, based on the kind of defect. anemia is the main clinical manifestation of this phenotype of disorder. in order to correct the chronic anemia in thalassaemic individuals, they may need ...

Objective: This study aims to determine the frequency of bacterial co-infections in COVID-19-positive patients.
 Methodology: A prospective cross-sectional was conducted Department Microbiology, Pakistan, from November 15, 2021, April 2022. Blood and respiratory tract samples were collected, including sputum, bronchial lavage, tracheal aspirate. Clinical specimens inoculated onto a Sheep b...