occurrence of some infectious diseases as hepatitis B virus, cytomegalovirus infection and AIDS, among paid blood donors and their recipients

The transmission of infectious diseases through blood transfusion represents a great danger. Many infectious diseases can be transmitted through their transfusion such as hepatitis B, cytomegalovirus and AIDS. Therefore this study aimed to determine the occuirence of such diseases among donors and their recipients. Among the 100 transfusion recipients there were seven cases of hepatitis [propable NA, NB], 28 cases had increased ALT. Two cases of CMV infections [among those who remained ALT normal allover and a single case of HBV infection]. All the recipients had CMV antibodies in the pretransfusion sample. None of the 100 donors tested for anti-HIV reacted positive.