title: Hepatitis B core antibody in blood donor in Sistan-Balutuestan province of Iran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Safety of blood donor is an important issue for a recipient of blood so all blood donors are to screened for viral such as HBV, HCV, and HIV. Nevertheless, infections sometime occur by blood and its products.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Because we haven't got any awareness about isolated Hbc Ab from a blood donor who presented of occults B hepatitis which can transmit infection to blood recipient, we decided to evaluate HbcAb in a blood donor in this province.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a cross-sectional study on a blood donor in Sistan-Balutuestan province in southeast of Iran in 2010. All individuals referred for blood donation recruited to this. After consent demographic data was recorded from each case, 5 ml blood sample was drawn and centrifuged to separate out the serum and then HbsAb, HbcAb was assayed. Data analyzed by SPSS 16 and frequency, chi- square test, and Fisher exact test was used and if P > 0.05 it was accented as significant association.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All individuals were men with age 55 10.5 years. The number of people who had free job was 149 (34.6%) and the number of people whose education level was diploma was 159 (36.9%). About 423 (98.1%) lived in urban areas. The mean weight of men was 76.6 13.7; about 259 (60.1%) men were married. A total of 22 (5.1%) had a positive smoking history. HBc Ab was positive in 87 (20.2%). Nearly all people had HBsAb titer more than 10 IU/L.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study showed that some of the blood donors had isolated HbcAb positive therefore we recommend HbcAb screening for blood donation.
authors.affiliation: Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization-Research Center, Zahedan Regional Educational Blood Transfusion Center, Iran.
authors.forename: E Sanei
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Moghaddam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khosravi
authors.forename: Gholam Ali
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Ghorbani
authors.forename: Seyed Moayed
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Alavian
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D058731:Blood Safety; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000592:standards*; D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies