Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibody in health blood donors

From: Indian Journal of Medical Research | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The present study was conducted to find the prevalence of HCV antibody in blood donors with an aim to provide safe blood for transfusion. A total of 44,086 blood samples from healthy blood donors was screened for HCV antibody by third generation ELISA assay and a prevalence of 0.53 per cent was found in our study. We suggest that routine screening of all donor blood should be done.

Key words Blood donors - HCV antibody - hepatitis C virus

The discovery and subsequent cloning of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1989 was rapidly followed by the development of enzyme linked immuno-sorbent assays ...

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