Seroimmunological Study for Detection of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen among Healthy Blood Donors in Diwaniyah-Iraq Leelo Abdulameer K.1,*, Khudhair Saeed Hilal2, Fadel Radhia Hussain3 1M.B. Ch. B, MSc, PhD MicrobiologyUniversity Of Al-Qadisiyah, College of Nursing, Iraq 2University of Al-Qadisiyah, College of Nursing, Iraq 3College of Health and Medical Techniques, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, 31003, AL-Kufa, Iraq *Corresponding author: Abdulameer K. Leelo. M.B. Ch. B, MSc, PhD MicrobiologyUniversity of Al-Qadisiyah, College of Nursing, Iraq. E-mai: Saeed.alhasani@qu.edu.iq
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract The aim of the study: was to evaluate the occurrence of HBsAg among healthy blood donors (BD) in Diwaniyah-Iraq by immunoassay. This study includes immunoassay for detection of HBsAg in (26318 BDs, 113 females &.26205 males during 2015 and 27657 of the BDs 27581 males & 76 females during 2016). All blood donors positive for HBsAg are clustered according to the age groups also distributed according to the residency whether rural or urban. HBV The study was carried out from January 2015 till December 2016 for detection of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) (Hepatitis B surface Antigen HBsAg) by enzyme immunoassay We detected that in Diwaniyah BDs, during 2015 were 39 of them have hepatitis B viral infection (0.149%) of the total BDs, 23 of them from urban area (58.97%) and 16 live in rural area (41.03%). While during the year 2016 the seropositive BDs we find that 44 seropositive for HBsAg represented 0.16% of the total BDs, 29 BDs live in urban area (65.9%) whereas 15 BDs live in rural area (34.1%) all of them were males and none of the females seem to us infected during 2015 & 2016. Top Keywords Blood donor, Diwaniyah Iraq Hepatitis B Surface Antigen. Top |