Low prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors in South India

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Seroprevalence of transfusion transmissible infections among blood donors by chemiluminescent assay in a tertiary care centre

“…Seroprevalence of HIV was found out to be 0.13%, which is in concordance with Mythreyee et al, [23], who also reported the prevalence of HIV was 0.19%. Higher seroprevalence of 0.26%, 0.47%, 3.8% and 11.7% [3,15,27,28] have been reported by various studies.…”

“…Furthermore, previous reports from the western, eastern, and northern states of India revealed the HCV seroprevalence to be 0.29% [15], 0.35% [25], 1.5% [26], respectively. Lower prevalence of HCV was reported from Southern India by Mythreyee et al (0.22%) as well as Ather Fatima et al, (0.01%) [21,23]. Seroprevalence of HCV was relatively high in our study (0.56%) when compared with the reported rates in other parts of country.…”

“…Various studies reported the variable results of prevalence from various places of India. Studies from South India reported the prevalence of 0.69% (Fatima A et al) [21], 0.71% (Leena MS et al) [22]0.98% (Manoharan Mythreyee et al) [23], 1.67% (B. Suresh et al) [24]; 1.66% in Eastern India [25], 1.7% from Northern [26], and as high as 3.44% in Western India [15].…”

Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C viruses, and Treponema pallidum infections among blood donors at Shiyan, Central China

“…It is noteworthy that the molecular diagnosis techniques has been widely applied for blood screening in early 2015 in Shiyan City. Compared with the seroprevalence of HBV infections from developing countries including Mexico [ 20 ], Nepal [ 21 ], South India [ 22 ], and some African countries including Ethiopia [ 11 ], Nigeria [ 23 ], and Mali [ 24 ], HBV harbors the intermediate level. In view of age distribution, notably increased in HBV seroprevalence was found in the 36–45 and ≥45 years groups and this is similar to previous reports in Xi’an [ 6 ].…”

Declining trend of HIV infection among the rural population of South India – A comparison of HIV prevalence in high risk and low risk groups

“…The selection, enrollment and assessment of HIV status of the blood donor were performed according to NACO guidelines on "Standards for Blood Banks and Blood Transfusion Services". 8,9 During the study period of 6 years, we enrolled a total of 50,043 participants in our ICTC and 12,085 voluntary blood donors in our blood bank. Among them 3282 (6.6%) and 22 (0.18%) were found to be positive for HIV infection in ICTC and blood bank, respectively.…”