Mehwish Azam, Nousheen Jamal, Fauzia Imtiaz, Zeba Haque, Zeenat Ayoob.
Blood donor screening for hepatitis and HIV.
J Dow Uni Health Sci Jan ;1(2):82-3.

It was a cross sectional study including 688 blood donors reporting in Fatima laboratory located at Baqai Medical University Karachi, during the period of January to December 2006. Five ml. of venous blood was drawn by aseptic technique. The tests performed for screening purpose included: ABO grouping and Rhesus typing, Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) antibody to hepatitis C virus (Anti-HCV) and antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (Anti-HIV). The qualitative analysis for HBsAg, HCV and HIV were performed on test device (ACON Company) by immunochromatographic technique. All the donors were deferred and accepted for blood transfusion according to the screening results. Thirty one (4.50%) were positive for HBsAg, 30 (4.36%) were positive for anti HCV and 1 (0.14%) were positive for anti HIV. According to the above observations, frequency of HBsAg (4.5%) was greater when compared with HCV and HIV.

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