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Table 1 Total numbers of Anopheles adult female mosquitoes collected by pyrethrum knockdown catch from houses in two villages, Chipula and Kela, in the lower Shire valley, Malawi, between January 2002 and January 2003

From: Entomological indices of malaria transmission in Chikhwawa district, Southern Malawi

Species

Chipula

Kela

Total

An. funestus

1054

2410

3464

An. gambiae s.l.

1407

2846

4253

An. arabiensis

831 (76.5%)

1642 (74.8%)

2437

An. gambiae s.s.

248 (22.8%)

547 (24.9%)

795

An. quadriannulatus

8 (0.7%)

6 (0.3%)

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