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- Title
Prevalence of serological inability of blood donors in regional blood center of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais.
- Authors
de Magalhães, Tatiana Almeida; de Freitas Teles, Leandro; Evangelista Nascimento, Jairo; Mendes de Oliveira, Liliane Marta; de Moura Santos Xavier, Emanuelle; Marini Aguiar, Karina
- Abstract
Objective: to estimate the prevalence of disability serological of blood donors at the Regional Blood Center of Montes Claros, in the period 2009 to 2013. Methods: this is a transversal study, exploratory, through retrospective data collection, involving 2.101 donors unfit serologically. The study was approved by the CEP of Hemominas Foundation 381/2014. Results: of the 82.743 candidates suitable for blood collection, 2.101 (2.5%) had reactive serologic tests, but only 1.434 (1.9%) confirmed the result through the 2nd sample collection. Among the diseases investigated, there was the following distribution prevalence of hepatitis B (anti-HBc) donors with 0.77% about the total of suitable, syphilis (0.41%), Chagas (0.40%), and others showed values below 0.08%. Conclusion: we concluded that in comparison with other studies, it was found that the prevalence of disability in our blood bank serological is similar, showing that the measures taken are safe.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; BLOOD banks; BLOOD donors; HEPATITIS B; RESEARCH; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; DISEASE prevalence; RETROSPECTIVE studies
- Publication
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 3, p4864
- ISSN
1809-6107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.9789/2175-5361.2016.v8i3.4864-4871