Haemoglobin S and sickling in Khartoum province
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 60 (1), 48-52
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(66)90182-9
Abstract
Since August 1960, electrophoretic studies have been made on 8000 blood samples mainly from Sudanese “Arab” patients attending Khartoum General Hospital, and on 500 Sudanese blood donors. Haemoglobin S was found in 2·66% of all samples (as haemoglobin A+S in 2·38% and as S+F in 0·28%). Other abnormal haemoglobin variants were found in 0·6%. Sickling tests on 2632 persons in Omdurman and Khartoum North gave positive results in 1·52%. The need is stressed for more sickling surveys in the Sudan, to determine more precisely the distribution of this hereditary abnormality.Keywords
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