Dengue Virus and Blood Safety: A Mini-Review of Research Publications

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dc.contributor.authorMulakoli, Festus
dc.contributor.authorGachara, George
dc.contributor.authorNdombi, Eric
dc.contributor.authorKhamadi, Samoel
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-05T13:46:30Z
dc.date.available2023-07-05T13:46:30Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-30
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe growing demand for donated whole blood and blood products to save lives has both health benefits and health risks for blood recipients at the same time. Dengue virus, a re-emerging viral disease poses a threat to blood safety, and it has spread to over 128 countries in the world. Several studies have documented transfusion-transmitted (TT) dengue, with the first cases being reported in China in 2002 and Singapore in 2008. To understand the magnitude and broader picture of the dengue virus and blood safety, we conducted a mini-review of published literature from the Scopus database. The review focused on the number of publications related to the dengue virus among blood donors. Using keywords ‘Dengue virus’ AND ‘Blood safety’, ‘ Dengue virus’ AND ‘Blood donors’ and ‘Emerging infectious diseases’ AND “Blood safety” were used to extract data from the Scopus database which was downloaded as a CSV Excel file covering a period 2004 to 2021. This was followed by a data-cleaning exercise and a descriptive analysis to generate the frequency of the number of publications. Most studies, as can be seen in the review, were concentrated in tropical regions of the world. Globally, South America and the Asian regions had the largest number of publications; while at the country level, Brazil and India had the highest number. More research output was witnessed during the years 2014 and 2018. The regions that experienced more frequent outbreaks of the disease, with the exception Africa, published most of the research work. Therefore, much more research work is needed to protect the safety of blood donors in Africaen_US
dc.identifier.citationMulakoli, F., Gachara, G., Ndombi, E., & Khamadi, S. (2023). Dengue Virus and Blood Safety: A Mini-Review of Research Publications. East Africa Science, 5(1), 1-7.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.24248/easci.v5i1.69
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/26091
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEAHRCen_US
dc.titleDengue Virus and Blood Safety: A Mini-Review of Research Publicationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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