Shamim Mumtaz, Mehmood Ur Rehman, Muhammad Muzaffar, Masood ul Hassan, Wasim Iqbal.
Frequency of seropositive blood donors for hepatitis B, C and HIV viruses in railway hospital Rawalpindi.
Pak J Med Res Jan ;41(2):51-3.

This study was conducted from March 2001 to May 2002 at Railway Hospital Rawalpindi, a teaching hospital attached with Islamic International medical college, to assess the frequency of hepatitis B, C and HIV in healthy blood donors. Five hundreds and eighty blood donors were screened for HBsAg, 563 donors for Anti-HCV Antibodies and 553 donors for Anti-HIV Antibodies with the help of rapid immuno chromatographic method. The Hepatitis C virus was found to be most common (6.21%) whereas Hepatitis B virus was next in prevalence (5.86%). Out of 553 blood donors none was found to be positive for HIV virus. The preventive strategies be adopted for Hepatitis B and C viruses which constitute a major public health problem in Pakistan.

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