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Table 3 Number of blood-meal sources of engorged anopheline species

From: Composition of Anopheles mosquitoes, their blood-meal hosts, and Plasmodium falciparum infection rates in three islands with disparate bed net coverage in Lake Victoria, Kenya

Study area

Species

n

Vertebrate host

Human

Chicken

Sheep

Cow

Goat

Pig

Frog

Rat

Dog

Bird

UN

Mageta

An. gambiae s.s.

310

236.5a

9a

1

25.5a

4a

2

1

5

6

1

19

 

An. arabiensis

40

26a

1

4

7a

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

 

An. funestus s.s.

16

15

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

 

An. coustani

8

1

0

0

7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

Total (%)

374

278.5a (74.47%)

10a (2.67%)

5 (1.34%)

39.5a (10.56%)

4a (1.07%)

2 (0.53%)

1 (0.27%)

5 (1.34%)

6 (1.60%)

1 (0.27%)

22 (5.88%)

Magare

An. gambiae s.s.

7

3

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

2

 

An. arabiensis

2

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

 

An. funestus s.s.

8

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

 

An. coustani

8

0

0

0

7

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

 

Total (%)

25

10 (40%)

0

0

8 (32%)

0

0

0

1 (4%)

0

0

6 (24%)

Ngodhe

An. gambiae s.s.

3

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

An. arabiensis

9

7.5a

0

0

1.5a

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

An. funestus s.s.

5

2a

0

0

3a

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

Total (%)

17

12.5a (73.53%)

0

0

4.5a (26.47%)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

 

416

297

10

5

53

4

2

2

6

6

1

27

  1. n: numbers of engorged anophelines analysed; UN: numbers of blood-meals whose sources identification was not successful
  2. aInclude mixed anophelines blood-meals