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Table 2 Sporozoite infection rate and load in wild and colonized An. stephensi

From: Susceptibility of wild and colonized Anopheles stephensi to Plasmodium vivax infection

Experiment no.

Gametocytaemia

Wild mosquitoes

Colonized mosquitoes

No. dissected

No. positive

Sporozoite infection rate (%)

Gland index

No. dissected

No. positive

Sporozoite infection rate (%)

Gland index

3

0.097

21

20

95.2

4+ (12), 3+ (8)

21

21

100

4+ (6), 3+ (15)

5

0.136

20

11

55

4+ (1), 3+ (7), 2+ (2), 1+ (1)

20

4

20

3+ (4)

6

0.585

12

11

91.6

4+ (2), 3+ (10)

12

12

100

4+ (3), 3+ (8), 2+ (1)

7

0.235

21

19

90.4

4+ (3), 3+ (15), 1+ (1)

21

16

76.1

4+ (1), 3+ (10), 2+ (4), 1+ (1)

8

0.18

20

17

85

4+ (7), 3+ (9), 2+ (1)

20

18

90

4+ (3), 3+ (9), 2+ (5), 1+ (1)

9

0.058

20

17

85

4+ (2), 3+ (7), 2+ (7), 1+ (1)

20

20

100

3+ (10), 2+ (10)

10

0.143

21

15

71.4

3+ (8), 2+ (7)

21

17

80.9

3+ (6), 2+ (8), 1+ (3)

11

0.3195

4

0

0

–

4

0

0

–

12

0.198

20

0

0

–

20

0

0

–

14

0.16

8

3

37.5

2+ (3)

8

0

0

–

15

0.06

20

5

25

3+ (1), 2+ (4)

20

0

0

–

16

0.115

18

18

100

4+ (12), 3+ (5), 2+ (1)

18

17

94.4

4+ (5), 3+ (11), 2+ (1)

17

0.145

22

20

90.9

4+ (11), 3+ (9)

22

21

95.4

4+ (5), 3+ (13), 2+ (3)

18

0.055

13

3

23

2+ (3)

13

11

84.6

3+ (1), 2+ (8), 1+ (2)

20

0.037

8

0

0

–

8

0

0

–

21

0.0625

24

19

79.1

4+ (1), 3+ (3), 2+ (6), 1+ (9)

24

14

58.3

2+ (10), 1+ (4)

22

0.095

22

20

90.9

4+ (1), 3+ (3), 2+ (13), 1+ (3)

22

16

72.7

4+ (1), 3+ (1), 2+ (7), 1+ (7)

23

0.040

16

3

18.7

2+ (2), 1+ (1)

16

0

0

0

25

0.088

20

16

80

3+ (4), 2+ (11), 1+ (1),

20

10

50

3+ (1), 2+ (7), 1+ (2)

26

0.141

13

12

92.3

4+ (1), 3+ (9), 2+ (1), 1+ (1)

13

12

92.3

3+ (7), 2+ (2), 1+ (3)

27

0.122

11

0

0

0

11

0

0

0

28

0.176

13

13

100

4+ (8), 3+ (5)

13

12

92.3

4+ (4), 3+ (6), 2+ (2)

29

0.295

21

1

4.7

1+ (1)

21

2

9.5

2+ (1), 1+ (1)

30

0.274

13

12

92.3

4+ (4), 3+ (5), 2+ (3)

13

10

76.9

4+ (2), 3+ (6), 2+ (1), 1+ (1)

31

0.092

20

18

90

4+ (3), 3+ (6), 2+ (8), 1+ (1)

20

18

90

3+ (4), 2+ (11), 1+ (3),

32

0.3

15

12

80

2+ (7), 1+ (5)

15

8

53.3

2+ (7), 1+ (1)

  1. Experiment numbers in Table 2 correspond to experiment numbers in Table 1. The data from experiments 3, 5, 6–12, 14 and 15 in wild mosquitoes were used in Balabaskaran et al. [23] to study sporozoite infection kinetics in wild mosquitoes