Research Article
The Burden of Likely Rubella Infection among Healthy Pregnant Women in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Table 3
Pregnancy stage, residence, and parity spread of the IgM antibody among study population.
| | Stages of pregnancy | No. of people screened | No. of positive cases (%) | No. of negative cases (%) |
| | 1st trimester | 32 (17.11) | 7 (21.88) | 25 (78.13) | | 2nd trimester | 69 (36.90) | 13 (18.84) | 56 (81.16) | | 3rd trimester | 86 (45.90) | 15 (17.44) | 71 (82.56) | | Total | 187 (100.00) | 35 (18.72) | 152 (81.28) | | Place of residence | | Rural | 78 (41.71) | 13 (16.67) | 65 (83.33) | | Urban | 109 (58.29) | 22 (20.18) | 87 (79.82) | | Total | 187 (100.00) | 35 (18.72) | 152 (81.28) | | Parity | | Primigravida | 62 (33.16) | 9 (14.52) | 53(85.48) | | Multigravida | 103 (55.08) | 21 (20.39) | 82 (79.61) | | Grand multigravida | 22 (11.76) | 5 (22.73) | 17 (77.27) | | Total | 187 (100.00) | 35 (18.72) | 152 (81.28) |
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