Babak Arjmand, Seyed Hamidreza Aghayan, Parisa Goodarzi, Mohammad Farzanehkhah, Seyed Mohamadjavad Mortazavi, Mohamad Hossein Niknam, Ali Jafarian, Farzin Arjmand, Soheyla Jebelly far
Iranian Tissue Bank prepares a wide range of human tissue homografts such as; heart valve, bone, skin, amniotic membrane and other tissues for different clinical applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of HTLV in tissue donors. About 1,548 tissue donors were studied during a 5-years period by ELISA assays. HTLV(1,2)-antibodies were tested for all of donors with other tests upon American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) standards. About 25 (1.61%) out of 1,548 tissue donors were HTLV positive that 17 donors were male and 8 were female (female/male ratio was approximately 47%)...
August 2009: Cell and Tissue Banking