Occult hepatitis B infection and transfusion-transmission risk

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Advances in serology and viral nucleic acid testing (NAT) over the last decades significantly reduced the risk of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis B virus (HBV). The combination of HBsAg testing and NAT efficiently prevents the majority of HBV transmission. However, a specific residual risk remains associated with extremely low viral DNA levels in blood donors with occult HBV infection (OBI) that are intermittently or not detectable even by highly sensitive individual donation (ID) NAT. Studies have reported HBV transfusion-transmission with blood components from donors with OBI that contained low amount of viruses (<200 virions). HBV transfusion-transmission seems to depend on a combination of several factors including the volume of plasma associated with the infected blood components transfused, the anti-HBV immune status of both recipient and donor, and possibly the viral fitness of the infecting HBV strain. Models based on clinical and experimental evidences estimate a residual transmission risk of 3-14% associated with OBI donations testing HBsAg and ID-NAT non-reactive. Anti-HBc testing has the potential to improve further blood safety but it may also compromise blood availability in settings with medium/high HBV prevalence. Pathogen reduction procedures might be considered.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine - 24(2017), 3 vom: 03. Sept., Seite 189-195

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Candotti, D [VerfasserIn]
Boizeau, L [VerfasserIn]
Laperche, S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood safety
Détection du génome viral
DNA, Viral
Hepatitis B Antibodies
Hepatitis B Core Antigens
Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
Hepatitis B virus
Infection B occulte
Journal Article
Nucleic acid testing
Occult HBV infection
Review
Sécurité transfusionnelle
Transfusion-transmission
Transmission par transfusion
Virus de l’hépatite B

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 19.07.2018

Date Revised 19.07.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.tracli.2017.06.014

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM273502832