Análisis de un relevamiento serológico nacional para enfermedades transmisibles por transfusión de sangre. Miembros de la Sociedad Argentina de Hemoterapia e Inmunohematologia. / [Analysis of a national serological survey for diseases transmitted by blood transfusion]

ABSTRACT

In August 1992 information was requested from 49 Blood Banks in national hospitals and private institutions in order to carry out a serological screening of blood donors for diseases transmitted by transfusion. Data was requested from 1987 to the first semester of 1992 and included the total annual number of blood donors and the incidence of seropositivity for Chagas disease, brucellosis, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, and HIV. Out of a total of 1,075,051 blood donors registered (Table 1), there was 4.36