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Trop Doct 2009;39:152-154
doi:10.1258/td.2008.080330
© 2009 Royal Society of Medicine Press

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Prevalence of transfusion transmitted infections in blood donors: an Indian experience

Tulika Chandra MD      Ashutosh Kumar MD     Ashish Gupta MSc PhD  

Department of Pathology and Blood Bank, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence to: Dr Tulika Chandra, Department of Pathology and Blood Bank, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: tulikachandra{at}rediffmail.com

A retrospective study was done on blood units collected from replacement and voluntary donors from 2001 to 2007. Seropositivity of transfusion transmitted disease in replacement donors was 1.96% in hepatitis B surface antigen, 0.85% in hepatitis C virus, 0.23% in HIV and 0.01% in syphilis. Voluntary donors had an almost negligible infectivity rate.


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