ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the distribution of blood groups and the demographic background of blood donors in a referral hospital in Northern Tanzania. RESULTS: The most common blood group was O (52.3%) and the least common was AB (3.18%). 97.7% of the blood donors were Rh positive and...

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Autores principales: Jahanpour, Ola, Pyuza, Jeremia J., Ntiyakunze, Ernest O., Mremi, Alex, Shao, Elichilia R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29246245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3037-3
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Pyuza, Jeremia J.
Ntiyakunze, Ernest O.
Mremi, Alex
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the distribution of blood groups and the demographic background of blood donors in a referral hospital in Northern Tanzania. RESULTS: The most common blood group was O (52.3%) and the least common was AB (3.18%). 97.7% of the blood donors were Rh positive and the rest were Rh negative. Most donors were young adults, representing the age group of 19–29. The majority of donors were male (88.1%) and the majority (90.8%) were replacement while the remainder was voluntary donors.
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spelling pubmed-57324462017-12-21 ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania Jahanpour, Ola Pyuza, Jeremia J. Ntiyakunze, Ernest O. Mremi, Alex Shao, Elichilia R. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the distribution of blood groups and the demographic background of blood donors in a referral hospital in Northern Tanzania. RESULTS: The most common blood group was O (52.3%) and the least common was AB (3.18%). 97.7% of the blood donors were Rh positive and the rest were Rh negative. Most donors were young adults, representing the age group of 19–29. The majority of donors were male (88.1%) and the majority (90.8%) were replacement while the remainder was voluntary donors. BioMed Central 2017-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5732446/ /pubmed/29246245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3037-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ntiyakunze, Ernest O.
Mremi, Alex
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ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title_full ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title_fullStr ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title_short ABO and Rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
title_sort abo and rhesus blood group distribution and frequency among blood donors at kilimanjaro christian medical center, moshi, tanzania
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29246245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3037-3
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