Assessing ABO/Rh Blood Group Frequency and Association with Asymptomatic Malaria among Blood Donors Attending Arba Minch Blood Bank, South Ethiopia

Table 3

Malaria prevalence and mean parasite load among ABO blood group phenotypes of blood donors attending Arba Minch Blood Bank from February to June 2015.

	Examined	Infected		Mean parasite density/µL
		P. falciparum	P. vivax
ABO blood group
O	175	5 (2.6%)	9 (5.1%)	377.14
AB	18	1 (5.6%)	0	320.0
B	87	1 (1.1%)	0	320.0
A	136	1 (0.7%)	0	80.0
Total	416	8 (1.9%)	9 (2.2%)