title: Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibody in healthy blood donors.
abstract: The present study was conducted to find the prevalence of HCV antibody in blood donors with an aim to provide safe blood for transfusion. A total of 44,086 blood samples from healthy blood donors was screened for HCV antibody by third generation ELISA assay and a prevalence of 0.53 per cent was found in our study. We suggest that routine screening of all donor blood should be done.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Makroo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raina
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kaushik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001782:Blood Donors; D005260:Female; D018937:Hepatitis C Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D018937:Hepatitis C Antibodies