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Table 2 Proportion of human and bovine blood meals for Anopheles arabiensis and An. funestus collected at eight sites representing three agro-ecosystems in Mwea, Kenya.

From: Host choice and multiple blood feeding behaviour of malaria vectors and other anophelines in Mwea rice scheme, Kenya

  

An. arabiensis

An. funestus

Agro-ecosystem

Village

No. tested*

% Human

% Bovine

No. tested

% Human

% Bovine

Planned rice

Ciagi-ini

227

2.2

84.1

30

0.0

96.7

 

Kangichiri

240

2.1

51.7

7

14.3

71.4

 

Karima

265

7.5

76.6

26

11.5

88.5

 

Kiuria

309

6.1

78.0

48

0.0

93.8

 

Rurumi

214

7.9

80.4

16

6.3

93.8

 

Mbui-njeru

815

9.3

78.2

19

10.5

73.7

 

Overall

2070

6.9

75.7

146

4.8

89.7

Unplanned rice

Kiamaciri

338

11.5

73.7

11

27.3

63.6

Non-irrigated

Murinduko

134

49.3

43.3

65

72.3

9.2

  1. * Results for indoor and outdoor collected mosquitoes were pooled together