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. 2000 Aug-Sep;78(8-9):512-7.

[Prevalence of anti-CMV antibodies in blood donors in the Sfax region (value in blood transfusion)]

[Article in French]
J Gargouri  1 , H Elleuch, H Karray, H Rekik, A Hammami
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  • PMID: 11190729

[Prevalence of anti-CMV antibodies in blood donors in the Sfax region (value in blood transfusion)]

[Article in French]
J Gargouri et al. Tunis Med. 2000 Aug-Sep.

Abstract

Detection of anti-CMV antibodies was carried out in sera of healthy blood donors, divided into groups of 20 according to age and sex. Sera were tested for anti-CMV by an ELISA test (Enzygnost anti-CMV/IgG-Behring). Among 280 sera, 272 were positive for IgG to CMV (97.14%). The prevalence of those antibodies was high in all age stratum (95-100%) but was higher in women than in men (98.57% versus 95.71%). The titre of IgG to CMV was superior to 12 Ul/ml in 56.43% of CMV positive donors. So, the leucocyte removal is the only alternative for the prevention of post-transfusional CMV infection. The high percentage of donors with anti-CMV antibodies level more than to 12 Ul/ml allow to consider the use of plasmapheresis for preparing specific immunoglobulins to CMV.

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