TY - JOUR AU - Alom, SM Tushar AU - Mondal, Kanak Jyoti AU - Tarafder, Shirin AU - Sonia, Farah Anjum AU - Chowdhury, Poritosh Kumar AU - Islam, Md Shoriful PY - 2019/02/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Sero-prevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections among Voluntary Blood Donors of Khulna Medical College Hospital JF - Bangladesh Medical Journal JA - Bangladesh Med J VL - 46 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.3329/bmj.v46i2.40212 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BMJ/article/view/40212 SP - 16-21 AB - <p>Transfusion transmitted infections (TTI) are a great concern of safety for patients. Blood transfusion is a lifesaving procedure but always caries a potential risk of infections.The present study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of infectious disease markers and frequency in males and females of various age groups among healthy blood donors. A retrospective review of donor record over a period of 2 years between 2015 to2016 was done at the department of transfusion medicine Khulna medical college Hospital, Khulna, Bangladesh.Among the total 37,266 donors,358(0.96%) donors were infected and therefore not suitable for blood donations.HBV was found to be the most frequent infection with a total frequency of 0.72% followed by TP (0.20%), HCV (0.03%) and HIV (0.01%). None of the blood samples showed positivity for malarial parasite.Majority of the seropositive donors, (47.96%) were in the age group of 26 to 35 years followed by 29.47% in 18 to 25 years’ age group.</p><p>Bangladesh Med J. 2017 May; 46 (2): 16-21</p> ER -