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

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

Study area	Species	n	Vertebrate host
Study area	Species	n	Human	Chicken	Sheep	Cow	Goat	Pig	Frog	Rat	Dog	Bird	UN
Mageta	An. gambiae s.s.	310	236.5^a	9^a	1	25.5^a	4^a	2	1	5	6	1	19
	An. arabiensis	40	26^a	1	4	7^a	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	278.5^a (74.47%)	10^a (2.67%)	5 (1.34%)	39.5^a (10.56%)	4^a (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	7.5^a	0	0	1.5^a	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	An. funestus s.s.	5	2^a	0	0	3^a	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total (%)	17	12.5^a (73.53%)	0	0	4.5^a (26.47%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		416	297	10	5	53	4	2	2	6	6	1	27

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

ISSN: 1475-2875