Seroprevalence of hepatitis b and c among blood donors in babylon governorate-Iraq

الملخص EN

A cross-sectional study of 23336 blood donors in Babylon Governorate–Iraq was done during the period from February 2007 to February 2008.

The study revealed that 23122 cases were males (99.1 %), while 214 were female (0.9 % ).

All the donors has been investigated for HBS Ag (Hepatitis B surface Antigen ) and Anti–Hepatitis C Virus antibodies ( Anti – HCV ab ) ( ELISA test ).

287 of the total sample ( 1.2 % ) found to be seropositive for either HBs Ag and Anti–HCV ab (274 were males 95.5 % and 13 were females ( 4.5 % ).

The number of HBs Ag seropositive cases were 171 (59.6 %) while the number of seropositive of Anti–HCV ab were 116 (40.4 %).

The seroprevalence of Hepatitis B virus infection among male donors was (0.7 % ) and for female donors was ( 4.7 %), while the seroprevalence of HCV infection among male donors was (0.5 %) and for female donors was ( 1.4%).

The overall seroprevalence of HBs Ag among blood donors in Babylon governorate is ( 0.7 %) and for Anti–HCV ab is ( 0.5 %) and these results are parallel or relatively low if they were compared with some other Iraqi Governorates and some other countries.