Abstract
Objectives: The present study has been carried out to assess the prevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) within blood donors at a tertiary care institution in Kolkata, India.
Methods: The present study is a five year (2012–2017) retrospective study. Data was accumulated and analysed from blood bank records of all donors who were screened for various TTIs using both Rapid Test and ELISA Methods.
Results: Total 15,541 blood donors were examined, comprising of 14,102 (90.74%) male donors and 11,446 (73.65%) voluntary donors. Cumulative seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV were 0.08%, 0.75%, 0.13% respectively; with no malaria-infected donor. The overall seroprevalence in present study is relatively low as compared to other studies.
Conclusions: The present study concluded that the seroprevalence of HBV was higher than HIV, HCV and Malaria in the last five years.
Keywords: Blood donors, HBV, HCV, HIV, Kolkata, Transfusion transmissible infections.
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i5.163
