Prevalence Of Transfusion Transmissible Infections Abo Blood Grouping And Antibody Screening Among Blood Donors At Defense Health Main Department Bella Blood Bank Center Of Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Background: The presence of blood borne infections in blood cells or plasma ofrnasymptomatic donors is the major risk factors for transmitting infectious agents throughrnblood transfusion.Common infectious agents include Hepatitis B virus,Hepatitis C virus ,rnHuman immunodeficiency virus and Syphilis .rnObjective: To determine prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections ,ABO bloodrngrouping and Antibody screening among blood donors at Defense Health MainrnDepartment Bella Blood Bank center of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.rnMethodology: A retrospective study on the magnitude of TTIs among blood donors wasrnconducted from January2010 to April2019 at Defense Health Main Department BellarnBlood Bank center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The socio-demography, TTI, ABO typing andrnantibody screen data was first entered into Excel spread sheet from the institutions file byrnremoving any identifier, cleaned and then finally exported to SPSS Version24 softwarernfor analysis.Proportion and P-value was used to calculate statistical significances.rnP-value