Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2017

Frequency and Annual trend of HBSAg seroreactivity among whole blood donors at a Regional Blood Transfusion Centre

Dr. Shaiji. P. S, Dr. Meena. D

Abstract :

 Introduction: Transmission of hepatitis B through blood transfusion is a documented and dreaded complication.Transfusion Services exclude potential infective donors through thorough sceening of blood donors.This Study attempts to establish the trend of seroprositivity for Hepatitis B Surface antigen among blood donors at Dept of Transfusion Medicine,Govt.Medical College,Thiruvananthapuram.

Materials&Methods:155275 blood donors who donated whole blood over a span of 5 years from 2012 january to 2016 december were screened with ELISA for Hepatitis B Surface antigen. Percentage of seroreactivity was noted .Trend was statistically analysed by Chi square test.

Result:1141 (0.92%)samples were found to be seroreactive.Yearwise prevalences remained <1%(ranging from 0.96% in 2012 to 0.85% in 2016 .There was a statistically significant decreasing trend.

Conclusion:Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B surface Antigen is approximately  1%  and it is steadily decreasing alhtough in small quantums.Transfusion services should aim to ing it down to near zero.

 

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Dr.Shaiji.P.S, Dr.Meena.D, Frequency and Annual trend of HBSAg seroreactivity among whole blood donors at a Regional Blood Transfusion Centre, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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