Plasmodium Falciparum Infection Among Individuals With Different Abo and Rhesus Blood Groups Among Patients Attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar

The ABO and Rhesus blood group systems are very important clinical tools that are commonly used in blood transfusion and their associations with various disease conditions have been widely reported. This project was geared towards unraveling the prevalence of Plasmodium Falciparum Infection Among Individuals with Different Abo and Rhesus Blood Groups Among Patients Attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar by using thick and thin blood smears preparation that were examined microscopically using X100 objectives. ABO and Rhesus blood group antigens tests using standard tile protocols between the months of May and June 2024. From the result, 61 participants with prevalence of 61.00% were positive for malaria parasites. The result revealed high prevalence of malaria parasite infection in the area showing that males with prevalence of 63.83% were more infected than females 58.49% showing P=0.585 statistically. The age range 11-20 and 1-10 had the highest prevalence of 86.36% and 65.38% respectively showing that P=0.03. This study also revealed that people with blood group A are more susceptible to malaria parasite while thos with O have immunity over malaria parasite infection (P=0.276). This study succeeded in unraveling a high endemicity of malaria parasite infection among Patients Attending University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar. More awareness about blood group should be created Among Patients as this would go a long way in reducing morbidity and mortality due to malaria and perhaps other blood diseases.