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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for experimental infections

From: Equivalent susceptibility of Anopheles gambiae M and S molecular forms and Anopheles arabiensis to Plasmodium falciparum infection in Burkina Faso

 

Gametocyte carrier characteristics

Mosquito characteristics

Statistics

Agea

Tfb

Gfc

Exposedd

Fede

Dissectedf

Deadg

Infectedh

Mean oocyst numberi

Minimum

5.3

0

16

150

33

30

0

11

1.541

25% Percentile

6.05

703

73.75

200

65

54.5

3

20

2.503

Median

7.4

1,203

104

230

87

82

7

37

4.9

75% Percentile

9.15

7,473

211

300

104

91.5

11.5

57

9.389

Maximum

12.5

1,8681

1143

450

200

192

26

88

31.2

Mean

7.627

4,056

170.6

255.2

87.52

79.69

7.828

38.59

7.109

Standard Error

0.3356

993.8

38.82

15.52

6.524

6.197

1.254

3.873

1.273

Sum

   

7,400

2,538

2,311

227

1,119

 
  1. All statistics were calculated using data from 29 individual experimental infections.
  2. a Child age in years, b Trophozoite density per ml of blood, c Gametocyte density per ml of blood, d Number of mosquitoes offered a blood meal, e Number of mosquitoes that took a blood meal, f Number of mosquitoes dissected seven to eight days following infection, g Number of mosquitoes that died between feeding and dissection, h Number of mosquitoes with at least one midgut oocyst, ioocyst intensity (average number of midgut oocysts in mosquitoes with ≥1 midgut oocyst).