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Background: Providing safe blood for transfusion is a responsibility of every blood bank. Screening for transfusion-transmissible infections (TTI) is one of the ways to ensure safety of blood and its products.
Praneeta Jaswant Singh, Hitesh Bhatt
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Trends in Transfusion Transmitted Infections Among Replacement Blood Donors in Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C and Human Immunodeficiency infections in replacement blood donors. METHODS: From January 2004 to December 2011, 108,598 apparently healthy donors donated blood at our Blood Bank ...
Syed Mohammad Irfan +4 more
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Transfusion transmissible infections in blood donors: A 7-year study in central Gujarat
Context: One of the major adverse effects of blood transfusion is transfusion transmissible infections (TTIs). Serological testing can help to reduce, but not eliminate occurrences of TTIs.
Pragnesh J Patel
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PREVALENCE OF TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN VOLUNTARY AND REPLACEMENT DONORS [PDF]
INDRODUCTION:Transfusion of blood and its components is lifesaving as well as it has life threatening hazards AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The Aimof the study was to find out the prevalence of Transfusion transmitted infections (TTI) in voluntary and ...
K Sreelatha1, Sharadrutha2
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Family/friend donors are not true voluntary donors
Background: Family/replacement donors still provide more than 45% of the blood collected in India. National AIDS Control Organization passed the guideline that family/friend donors should be considered as voluntary donors by the blood banks in India ...
Rohit Jain, Gajendra Gupta
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Zhibao Mi,1 Dimitri Novitzky,2 Joseph F Collins,1 David KC Cooper3 1Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VA Maryland Health Care Systems, Perry Point, MD, USA; 2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA;
Mi Z, Novitzky D, Collins JF, Cooper DKC
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Seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis in blood donors in Southern Haryana
Blood transfusion is an important mode of transmission of infections to recipients. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors.
Arora Dimple +2 more
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A study to evaluate the demographic profile of voluntary and replacement blood donors at tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India: a 5-year retrospective comparative analysis [PDF]
Background: Blood donor base is the foundation of any blood transfusion system. Donor screening plays an important role in ensuring the safety of the blood supply.1 This study was undertaken with the aim to screen the blood donor’s demographic profile as
Khan, Abdul F. +5 more
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Embryo donation parents' attitudes towards donors : comparison with adoption [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Embryo donation produces a family structure where neither rearing parent is genetically related to the child, as in adoption. It is not known how embryo donation parents view the donors compared with how adoptive parents view the birth ...
MacCallum, Fiona
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Seronegativity HBsAg, HCV and HIV among blood donors: A five year study
Introduction: This study is conducted to evaluate the seroprevalance of HIV, HBsAG, HBV and syphilis among blood donors at blood bank of medical college hospital along the five years.
Om Bodarya +5 more
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