Seroprevalance of anti-HCV among voluntary blood donors

Authors

  • Munshi M Habibullah Department of Safe Blood Transfusion, WHO, Dhaka
  • Hazera Khatun 2Department of Pathology, NICR&H, Dhaka
  • Ayesha Khatun Department of Transfusion Medicine, BSMMU, Dhaka
  • Fareha Jesmin Rabbi Department of Clinical Immunology, NIKDU, Dhaka.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bjmm.v3i2.5326

Keywords:

Transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs), HCV, anti-HCV

Abstract

The present study reports the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among 70,200 voluntary blood donors. Out of them, 364 (0.52%) donors were anti-HCV positive of which 308(0.44%) were male and 56(0.08%) were female. As the donors were categorized by profession, highest number of voluntary donors were students (58%) followed by Business man (21%), Service holder (19 %) and house wife (2%). Most of the donors (43%) were in the age group of 18-25yrs. Among the professional groups of voluntary blood donors, percentage of anti HCV positive cases was highest in businessmen group (1.09%) followed by housewife (0.98%), service holders (0.73%) and students (0.22%).

Bangladesh J Med Microbiol 2010; 03 (02): 1-3

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Abstract
126
PDF
79

Downloads

Published

2010-06-25

How to Cite

Habibullah, M. M., Khatun, H., Khatun, A., & Rabbi, F. J. (2010). Seroprevalance of anti-HCV among voluntary blood donors. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 3(2), 37–39. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjmm.v3i2.5326

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Original Articles