Overt and occult hepatitis B among immigrants and native blood donors in Madrid, Spain.
Rocío GonzálezLuisa BareaAna ArrugaAlberto RichartVicente SorianoPublished in: Therapeutic advances in infectious disease (2020)
Active HBV infection is currently found in 0.022% of blood donations (0.038% of donors) in Madrid. This rate is 3-fold greater than for HIV and/or HCV. On the other hand, HBsAg+ donors are 3-fold more frequent than OBI donors and more often immigrants than native Spaniards. No transfusion-transmitted HBV infections were identified during the study period, including retrospective checking of former recipients of OBI donors.