Trends of transfusion transmissible infections among blood donors in a rural medical college of West Bengal, India

摘要

Background: Blood transfusion is a life-saving therapy in different medical and surgical emergencies. It also has great public health importance. Objective: The present study was conducted to find out the prevalence o f transfusion transmissible infectio n (TTI) among blood donors, donated blood at the blood bank of North Bengal Medical College, in the reference time period (2008-2014), West Bengal, India. Methods: The Descriptive cross sectional record based study was conducted among all units o f blood collected from reference period. The retrospective study was conducted in March-May 2015. All voluntary and replacement donors reporting to the blood bank were screened for HBsAg, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), HIV and Syphilis by using the appropriate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. HIV testing was done using fo urth generation ELISA kits. Test for syphilis was done by VDRL. Malaria was tested using Leishman stained peripheral blood smear. Results: A total of 86847 donors donated blood over 7 years, among them 77.3% were males. The sero- positivity for various TTIs was found to be 17.48% for HIV, 42.09% for HBsAg, 25.65% for HCV, 14.52% for syphilis and 0.24% for malarial parasite (MP). Conclusion: Blood is still a main source of transmission of infections among donors in rural West Bengal.