Seroprevalence of syphilis infections among male blood donors at Thi-Qar Province

Abstract EN

The present study was carried out from 2010 to 2012 to detect the epidemiology of syphilis infections among the male blood donors, represent patients referred to the central blood bank, at Thi-Qar province.

The present study was revealed that out of 18669, 18252, and 17956 in 2010, 2011 and 2012 individuals from different regions of Thi-Qar province , total infections 315 positive cases , 60 (0.32%) , 90 (0.49%) and 165 (0.91%) of those gave positive result for syphilis infection by ELISA III technique respectively.The infections with syphilis among males in 2012, 165 (0.91%) were higher than in 2010 60 (0.32%) and 2011 90 (0.49%) with significant differences (P≤0.01).

The statistical analysis showed significant differences in urban than rural parts of the province.

The highest infections percentage recorded was 54.60% at age groups 31- 40 years, flowed by age group 41-50 years which showed the percentage 20%, while the lowest infection percentage was recorded at the age groups 51-60 and 20-30 years, which was 12.38% and 13.01% respectively