Affiliation:
1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Training Hospital, 34660 Uskudar-Istanbul
2. Department of Microbiology and Clinic Microbiology, Mersin University, Mersin
3. The Red Crescent Blood Center, Ankara 06650, Turkey
Abstract
This study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence and trends of antibodies to syphilis among Turkish blood donors (BDs) at the 22 National Blood Transfusion Service, Kizilay, between 1989 and 2004. Among the 6,240,130 BDs, a reactive result was obtained with the rapid plasma reagin test for 6864 donors (0.11%). A serious increasing trend was observed between 1989 and 1992 (41/100.000 versus 92/100.000 cases, P = 0.003, CI 95, 33–107), in 1998, the rates were observed to have increased approximately 4.01 times compared with that of 1989 (41/100,000 versus 168/000,000, P = 0.001, CI 95, 28–183). After 2002, syphilis seropositivity showed a marked decreasing trend ( P = 0.002, CI 95, 36–118). However, as this survey shows, the rate of seropositive donors for syphilis has been greatly reduced but it is believed that a more thorough management strategy is necessary in order to cause a further reduction in Turkey.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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