DETECTION OF ANTI-HBC AND ANTI-HBS ANTIBODIES IN BLOOD DONORS NEGATIVE | ||
| The Medical Journal of Basrah University | ||
| Article 6, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 2012, Pages 26-29 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33762/mjbu.2012.64011 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Maha M. Hameed; Hayder A. Al-Hmudi; Saad S.Hamadi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Objectives: safety of blood products is one of the major issues in the area of transfusion medicine. In previous study we found that hepatitis B virus was epidemic in some of Basrah medical institutions to assess the prevalence of anti-HBc and anti-HBs antibodies in serum samples of healthy blood donors negative for both HBsAg and anti-HCV in the Central Blood Bank, Basrah-Iraq. Results: 204 serum samples negative for both HBsAg and anti-HCV collected from healthy blood donors were tested for the presence of HBsAg, anti-HBs, HBeAg, anti-HBe and anti-HBc by using rapid chromatographic immunoassay. Of the 204 samples tested, 13 (6.37%) of the HBsAg negative blood samples were found to be positive for anti-HBc. 3(1.47%) out of 13 anti-HBc positive were found positive for anti-HBs. Conclusion: detection of anti-HBc and anti-HBs antibodies were more important than other markers in detection of latent Hepatitis B virus infection. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| safety; blood products; hepatitis B | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 380 PDF Download: 280 |
||