Percentage risk of HBV transmission by transfusion to blood recipients from donors with detectable HBsAg and/or HBV DNA according to HBsAg screening modalities
| . | Testing modalities3-150 . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No testing . | Agglutination . | Dipstick . | EIA . | DNA . | |
| Recipients younger than 10 y | 9.15 | 4.21 | 2.04 | 0.31 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (2.47-18.98) | (1.14-8.73) | (0.55-4.22) | (0.08-0.64) | — |
| Recipients older than 10 y | 2.14 | 0.98 | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (0.67-5.46) | (0.31-2.33) | (0.15-1.13) | (0.02-0.17) | — |
| All recipients | 2.94 | 1.35 | 0.66 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (0.87-7.17) | (0.40-3.30) | (0.19-1.60) | (0.03-0.24) | — |
| . | Testing modalities3-150 . | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No testing . | Agglutination . | Dipstick . | EIA . | DNA . | |
| Recipients younger than 10 y | 9.15 | 4.21 | 2.04 | 0.31 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (2.47-18.98) | (1.14-8.73) | (0.55-4.22) | (0.08-0.64) | — |
| Recipients older than 10 y | 2.14 | 0.98 | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (0.67-5.46) | (0.31-2.33) | (0.15-1.13) | (0.02-0.17) | — |
| All recipients | 2.94 | 1.35 | 0.66 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| (range of probable values) | (0.87-7.17) | (0.40-3.30) | (0.19-1.60) | (0.03-0.24) | — |
Results are expressed as percentage of units released that are expected to infect their recipients. Donors were 50% volunteers and 50% replacement.
See “Patients and methods.”