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Table 4 Host feeding index (HFI) for each pair of vertebrate hosts fed upon by Anopheles

From: Determination of the foraging behaviour and blood meal source of malaria vector mosquitoes in Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka using a multiplex real time polymerase chain reaction assay

Host 1 (X)

Host 2 (Y)

An. aconitus

An. annularis

An. barbirostris

An. barbumbrosus

An. culicifacies

An. karwari

An. nigerrimus

An. pallidus

An. peditaeniatus

An. pseudojamesi

An. subpictus

An. vagus

Human

Bovine

0.03

0.02

0.03

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.03

0.00

Cat

0.80

0.16

0.44

0.11

0.34

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.20

0.11

0.25

0.00

Pig

0.06

0.01

0.37

0.03

0.08

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.07

0.01

0.01

0.00

Bovine

Human

18.51

47.30

29.94

285.9

64.81

8.56

301.5

364.3

1.00

58.68

35.54

251.2

Cat

27.63

7.74

13.07

32.81

22.31

0.47

1.85

23.56

2.24

6.32

13.94

16.25

Pig

1.06

0.28

11.20

7.81

5.31

0.40

13.50

16.31

0.75

0.66

0.87

11.25

Cat

Human

0.00

6.11

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

1.32

0.00

Bovine

0.00

0.11

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Pig

0.00

0.04

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Pig

Human

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

89.20

0.00

0.00

Bovine

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

1.58

0.00

0.00

Cat

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

9.60

0.00

0.00