Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibody in healthy blood donors.
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.
Makroo
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Department of Transfusion Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
Raina
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Kaushik
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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
D018937:Hepatitis C Antibodies