title: [Anti-hepatitis C virus screening to prevent hepatitis C virus infection in blood donors].
abstract: Before carrying out anti-hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) screening in blood donors, 433 plasma donors and 461 whole blood donors from 4 county plasmapheresis units and 5 city blood centres in Hebei province were surveyed. Anti-HCV positive rates were 55.5% and 10.2% in the two populations respectively. The anti-HCV positive rates also differed between qualified and unqualified donors. In qualified and unqualified plasma donors, they were 46.2% and 91.6% respectively and in qualified and unqualified whole blood donors 5.8% and 42.3% respectively. One year after anti-HCV screening, 793 plasma donors and 873 whole blood donors in 3 city blood centres and 4 county hospitals were surveyed, the anti-HCV positive rates in plasma and whole blood donors were 4.0% and 0.2% respectively. Compared with those before screening, there were 91.3% and 96.6% reduction respectively. The anti-HCV positive rate in voluntary donors was 0.5%. All the 86 first time donors were negative for anti-HCV before and after screening.
authors.affiliation: Hebei Provihcial Sanitary and Anti-epidemic Station, Baoding.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000276:immunology; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018937:Hepatitis C Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D015995:Prevalence
chemical_list: D018937:Hepatitis C Antibodies