Prevalence of Asymptomatic Malaria Parasitemia among Blood Donors in Cape Coast, Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Distribution of malaria parasite infection among blood donors.

Variables	No. of examined (%)	No. of infected (%)
Gender
Male	224 (93.3)	6 (2.5)
Female	16 (6.7)	0 (0.0)
Age group
16–25	101 (42.1)	1 (0.4)
26–35	110 (45.8)	3 (1.3)
36–45	29 (12.1)	2 (0.8)
ABO group
A	27 (11.3)	0 (0.0)
B	31 (12.9)	0 (0.0)
AB	2 (0.8)	0 (0.0)
O	180 (75.0)	6 (2.5)
Rhesus group
Rhesus positive	231 (96.3)	5 (2.1)
Rhesus negative	9 (3.8)	1 (0.4)

Plasmodium falciparum intensity ranged from 40 to 800 trophozoites/µL of blood.