Open AccessReview of current issues of diagnosis and prevention of blood-borne nosocomial viral infections
Author(s) -
В. Г. Акимкин,
А. В. Алимов,
Yu. A. Zakharova,
Е. В. Болгарова,
M. V. Piterskiy,
Е. И. Сисин
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
voprosy virusologii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2411-2097
pISSN - 0507-4088
DOI - 10.36233/0507-4088-2019-64-6-262-267
Subject(s) - residual risk , medicine , intensive care medicine , viral hepatitis , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , hepatitis c , immunology
Provision of infection security in transplantology and transfusiology is a challenging and significant problem that depends on the quality of medical donor selection and laboratory diagnosis of the blood collected. At present, a large number of blood-borne viruses are known; nevertheless, in Russia, the list of viral agents to be tested during the examination by the blood service boils down to three ones: HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses. The review article demonstrates the need for implementation of additional laboratory tests for the agents of the priority healthcare-associated blood-borne infections (HAI) using a risk-based approach, i.e., on specified sites and in high risk groups. It presents a methodology for determination of a quantitative blood-induced infection residual risk (BIRR) index to be used while evaluating the efficiency of viral security provision in the blood service.