Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad-malaria paradigm?

Laporta, Gabriel Zorello; Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento; Levy, Debora; Fukuya, Linah Akemi; de Oliveira, Tatiane Marques Porangaba; Maselli, Luciana Morganti Ferreira; Conn, Jan Evelyn; Massad, Eduardo; Bydlowski, Sergio Paulo; Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb

doi:10.1186/s12936-015-0680-9

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Absolute (n) and relative frequency (%) of field collected Anopheles specimens per landscape, Atlantic forest, Brazil, August-November 2012

From: Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad-malaria paradigm?

Landscape	Traps	Species	Frequency		Period of collection
Landscape	Traps	Species	n	%	Period of collection
1-A	Shannon	An. (Ano.) fluminensis ^a	4	0.43	Mid October
	CDC-LT	An. (Ano.) intermedius	2	0.22	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ano.) intermedius ^a	12	1.30	Mid October
	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) bellator	1	0.11	Late August
	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) cruzii	2	0.22	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ker.) cruzii ^a	4	0.43	Mid October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) strodei s.s.^a	100	10.86	Mid October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) triannulatus ^a	21	2.28	Mid October
Subtotal			146	15.85
1-B	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) bellator	5	0.54	Mid August
1-B	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) cruzii	27	2.94	Mid August
Subtotal			32	3.48
1-C	CDC-LT	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus	19	2.06	Mid August
1-C	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) cruzii	1	0.11	Mid August
Subtotal			20	2.17
2	Shannon	An. (Ano.) intermedius ^a	1	0.11	Mid September
	CDC-LT	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus	12	1.30	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus ^a	8	0.87	Mid September
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) albitarsis s.s.^a	14	1.52	Mid September
Subtotal			35	3.80
3	Shannon	An. (Ano.) intermedius	14	1.52	Late October
	CDC-LT	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus	2	0.22	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus ^a	51	5.54	Late October
	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) cruzii	1	0.11	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ker.) cruzii	19	2.06	Late October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) albitarsis s.s.^a	2	0.22	Late October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) galvaoi ^a	147	15.96	Late October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) oswaldoi s.l.	13	1.41	Late October
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) triannulatus	14	1.52	Late October
Subtotal			263	28.56
4	Shannon	An. (Ano.) intermedius	2	0.21	Mid September
	CDC-LT	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus	1	0.11	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus ^a	1	0.11	Mid September
	CDC-LT	An. (Ker.) cruzii	1	0.11	Late August
	Shannon	An. (Ano.) mediopunctatus ^a	3	0.32	Mid September
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) albitarsis s.s.	14	1.52	Mid September
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) galvaoi ^a	58	6.30	Mid September
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) oswaldoi s.l.	8	0.87	Mid September
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) triannulatus	39	4.24	Mid September
Subtotal			127	13.79
5	Shannon	An. (Ker.) cruzii ^a	251	27.25	Late November
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) near pristinus	4	0.43	Late November
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) strodei s.s.^a	40	4.34	Late November
	Shannon	An. (Nys.) triannulatus	3	0.33	Late November
Subtotal			298	32.35
Total			921	100

^aMorphological identification confirmed by DNA COI barcode sequences.

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