National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Transfusion transmitted viral infections and syphilis pose a cross transmission risk to the uninfected patients and healthcare workers during the procedures or shared equipments. Most of the studies are conducted on either apparently healthy blood donors or specific patient groups with risk factors or comorbidities. This study was conducted to assess the overall seroprevalence amongst the patients visiting our hospital irrespective of the patient risk profile or comorbidities. This was a retrospective study utilizing the hospital records for a six month period from 10 October 2020 to 10 April 2021. Only non-duplicate patients and samples were considered for analysis. The study included 1123 individual patients. Of these 1123 patients, 649 were males whereas the remaining 474 were females. The observed seroprevalence of HIV was 0.91%, HCV 2.22%, HBV 1.3%, and syphilis 1.66%. The findings of the study are suggestive of a slightly higher seropositivity of HIV, HCV and HBV amongst the patients visiting this tertiary care centre when compared to the seroprevalence amongst healthy blood donors reported in the available studies from the region.
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