Increased malaria transmission around irrigation schemes in Ethiopia and the potential of canal water management for malaria vector control

Table 5 Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite rates in four Anopheles species collected from the irrigated and non-irrigated villages in the Ziway area, Ethiopia, between November 2009 and October 2010

	*An. arabiensis*	*An. pharoensis*	*An. coustani*	*An. funestus*
Irrigated villages
Number tested	2101	992	215	58
Number positive (%)	35 (1.67)	8 (0.81)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Non-irrigated villages
Number tested	234	71	29	-*
Number positive (%)	1 (0.43)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	-

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