Prevalence of Rhesus D antigen among patients attending Wudil General Hospital Kano state, Nigeria

The Rhesus blood group system is the second most important red blood cell antigen system after the ABO blood group system. The purpose of this study was to generate basic data on the prevalence of Rhesus D antigen among patients attending Wudil general hospital. Haemagglutination method was used to determine the presence of Rhesus D antigen using commercially available Anti-sera D. Anti-sera A and B were also used to investigate the ABO blood type. It was discovered that Rhesus D positive was the most prevalent with percentage frequency of 90.5% (181) and Rhesus D negative was the lowest with percentage frequency of 9.5% (19). It was observed that Rhesus D positive was higher in males than female (51.5% and 39.0% respectively). Rhesus D negative was also relatively higher in males than in females (6.0% and 3.5% respectively). A prevalent pattern of (B Rh-D +> O Rh-D +> A Rh-D +> AB Rh-D +> B Rh-D ->A Rh-D - > AB Rh-D - >O Rh-D -) was discovered. This study will be useful in studying the susceptibility of diseases with regards to Rhesus factor and may generate a vital information for population genetics and anthropological studies.