Objective: To estimate the prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Methodology: All the voluntary, non-paid and apparently healthy persons in the year 2017, coming to blood bank were screened for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C virus, HIV, Syphilis and malarial parasite by Immune chromatography technique (ICT). Prevalence was calculated.
Results: A total 29,167 donors were screened; out of these 2,034 (6.97%) were positive for hepatitis C, 590 (2.02%) were affected by HBV, four (0.01%) were positive for HIV, 708 (2.43%) were positive for syphilis and only 32 (0.01%) were positive for malarial parasite.
Conclusion: Rate of transfusion transmissible infections in Faisalabad was very high such as Hepatitis B, C and Syphilis. While HIV and malarial parasite prevalence was low.
Key words: Malarial parasite, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, syphilis, transfusion transmissible infections.
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