Table 4 Identity of blood meals in adult female mosquitoes collected by pyrethrum knockdown (PKD) and light traps (LT) in houses and in animal shelters in study villages, Taiz governorate, Yemen (Jan 2004‒Mar 2005 and Mar 2006)
Mosquito species | Blood meal source | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. tested | Human | Cattle | Human + cattle | Goat | Goat + human | Goat + bovine | Goat + human + cattle | Sheep | Other | ||
An. arabiensis (%) | 1143 | 781 (68.3) | 131 (11.5) | 158 (13.8) | 17 (1.5) | 5 (0.4) | 2 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | 0 | 47 (4.1) | |
An. sergentii (%) | 58 | 16 (27.6) | 27 (46.6) | 12 (20.7) | 2 (3.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1.7) | |
An. azaniae (typical) | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
An. azaniae (atypical) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
An. dthali | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
An. pretoriensis | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
An. coustani | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
An. algeriensis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1233 | 806 (65.4) | 174 (14.1) | 174 (14.1) | 20 (1.6) | 5 (0.4) | 2 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | 0 | 50 (4.1) | |