Demographics of Rhesus Phenotype of Blood Donors in Calabar: A Case Study of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Table 3

Rhesus antigen frequency compared with published results.

Research study	Rhesus antigen					No. of subjects	Country
	C (%)	c (%)	D (%)	E (%)	e (%)
Present study	30.7	98.5	97.7	39.2	95.4	130	Nigeria
Jeremiah and Buseri, 2003 [16]	17.7	99.8	95.0	20.5	98.7	400	Nigeria
Jeremiah and Odumody, 2005 [17]	2.8	100.0	94.4	18.9	95.6	720	Nigeria
Gwaram and Abdullah, 2013 [15]	28.2	85.4	97.1	34.0	96.1	103	Nigeria
Hamed et al., 2013 [18]	42.7	94.0	93.6	14.0	98.2	2094	Mauritania
Bogui et al., 2014 [19]	22.0	99.9	92.9	13.8	99.9	651	Cote d’Ivoire