Observation of Blood Donor-Recipient Malaria Parasitaemia Patterns in a Malaria Endemic Region

Table 1

Scenarios of the distribution of donor-recipient malaria parasitaemia among children receiving blood transfusion at ABUTH, Zaria ().

Group	Scenario
	1	2	3	4	5
Donor unit	MPs−	MPs+	MPs−	MPs−	MPs−
Pretransfusion	MPs−	MPs+	MPs−	MPs+	MPs+
Posttransfusion	MPs−	MPs−	MPs+	MPs+	MPs−
Tally (%)	118 (89.4)	9 (6.8)	3 (2.3)	1 (0.8)	1 (0.8)

MPs−: negative malaria parasites; MPs+: positive malaria parasites.