Seroprevalence of hepatitis B: Do blood donors represent the general population?

Hayat Kumbasar Karaosmanoglu; Ozlem Altuntas Aydin; Semra Sandikci; Emine Rahsan Yamanlar; Ozcan Nazlican

doi:10.3855/jidc.2084

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B: Do blood donors represent the general population?

Authors

Hayat Kumbasar Karaosmanoglu Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Ozlem Altuntas Aydin Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Semra Sandikci Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Emine Rahsan Yamanlar Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Ozcan Nazlican Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.2084

Keywords:

HBV, premarital screening, seroprevalance

Abstract

Introduction: In this study, we aimed to compare the HBV seroprevalances of voluntary blood donors and the healthy persons who required premarital screening.

Methodology: HBsAg ELISA results were collected retrospectively from the records of 9,949 blood donors and 954 healthy persons who required premarital screening.

Results: HBsAg was detected in 182 of 9,949 (%1.8) voluntary blood donors and 32 of 954 (%3.4) healthy persons who required premarital screening. HBsAg seropositivity was significiantly higher in the healthy persons who required premarital screening than in blood donors (p = 0.0016).

Conclusion: Premarital screening is mandatory in our country, and it may provide more accurate epidemiological data to determine HBV seroprevalence than in other selected groups such as blood donors.

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2011-09-07

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Kumbasar Karaosmanoglu H, Altuntas Aydin O, Sandikci S, Yamanlar ER, Nazlican O (2011) Seroprevalence of hepatitis B: Do blood donors represent the general population?. J Infect Dev Ctries 6:181–183. doi: 10.3855/jidc.2084

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Vol. 6 No. 02: February 2012

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