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Table 2 Parasitaemia and gametocytaemia before feeding and prevalence of infected mosquitoes in each group

From: Differential activity of methylene blue against erythrocytic and hepatic stages of Plasmodium

 

Untreated

MB 2H

MB D0–D3

Parasitaemia (%)

0.95 ± 0.39

1.36 ± 0.18

0.2 ± 0.02

Gametocytaemia (%)

0.08 ± 0.02

0.097 ± 0.06

0

Prevalence infected mosquitoes (%)

82.28 (29/35)

65.71 (23/35)

0 (0/35)

Oocytes mean per infected mosquitoes

128

8

0

  1. The results are expressed as mean ± standard errors. The result shown is representative of 1 assay of the 2 independent assays performed