Susceptibility of wild and colonized Anopheles stephensi to Plasmodium vivax infection

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Oocyte infection rate and load in wild and colonized Anopheles stephensi

Experiment no.	Gametocytaemia	Wild mosquitoes					Colonized mosquitoes
Experiment no.	Gametocytaemia	No. dissected	No. positive	Oocyst range	Average oocyst no.	Oocyst infection rate (%)	No. dissected	No. positive	Oocyst range	Average oocyst no.	Oocyst infection rate (%)
1	0.03	27	7	1–3	0.33	25.9	27	3	1–4	0.29	11.1
2	0.56	23	14	0–13	2.5	61	23	18	0–14	3.7	78.2
3	0.09	26	26	4–195	65.9	100	26	24	0–175	55.2	92.3
4	0.04	34	16	0–83	4.2	47	34	9	0–3	0.35	26.4
5	0.13	25	22	0–15	4.9	88	25	10	0–5	0.68	40
6	0.58	20	17	0–215	95.8	85	20	20	25–210	94.5	100
7	0.23	20	18	0–40	15.7	90	20	18	0–30	11.3	90
8	0.18	20	17	0–185	79.2	85	20	20	10–192	96.5	100
9	0.05	20	18	0–22	7.6	90	20	19	0–24	11.5	95
10	0.14	20	16	0–50	10.5	80	20	16	0–65	18	80
11	0.31	20	4	0–1	0.2	20	20	0	0–0	0	0
12	0.19	21	2	0–2	0.14	9.5	21	1	1	0.05	4.7
13	0.15	20	7	0–4	0.75	35	20	2	0–4	0.25	10
14	0.16	20	14	0–8	2.3	70	20	12	0–15	2.1	60
15	0.06	20	6	0–2	0.35	30	20	1	1	0.05	5
16	0.11	20	17	0–85	35.4	85	20	19	0–68	30	95
17	0.14	20	20	22–102	54.8	100	20	19	0–75	38.6	95
18	0.05	20	10	0–9	1.8	50	20	9	0–5	1.3	45
19	0.02	21	4	0–3	0.3	19	21	6	0–12	0.95	28.5
20	0.03	16	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	0
21	0.06	5	5	1–9	3.4	100	5	1	8	1.6	20
22	0.09	18	13	0–12	3	72.2	18	9	0–7	1.3	50
23	0.04	14	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0
24	0.03	25	22	0–35	9.6	88	25	14	0–22	4.3	56
25	0.08	20	11	0-8	1.4	55	20	11	0–3	0.95	55
26	0.14	20	20	1–127	41.7	100	20	16	0–55	21.3	80
27	0.12	20	1	1	0.05	5	20	0	0	0	0
28	0.17	12	12	21–105	57.9	100	12	12	1–85	46.5	100
29	0.29	20	5	0–4	0.55	25	20	2	0–5	0.35	10
30	0.27	17	17	13–165	55.4	100	17	17	4–89	44.7	100
31	0.09	20	19	0–42	8.3	95	20	19	0–25	6.6	95
32	0.3	15	15	21–145	70.5	100	15	15	1–132	67.2	100

The data from experiments 1–15 in wild mosquitoes were used in Balabaskaran et al. [23] to study oocyst infection kinetics in wild mosquitoes

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