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Table 2 Blood-meal sources of Anopheles mosquito species in the two study sites. Values outside parenthesis are number of mosquitoes and inside parenthesis are the proportion of row totals

From: Blood-feeding patterns of Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Malawi: implications for malaria transmission and effectiveness of LLIN interventions

Site

Vector

Human

Dog

Goat

Human/dog

Human/goat

Dog/goat

Namanolo

An. arabiensis

185 (84.9)

2 (0.9)

7 (3.2)

3 (1.4)

21 (9.6)

0 (0)

An. funestus

75 (87.2)

0 (0)

2 (2.3)

0 (0)

9 (10.5)

0 (0)

An. gambiae

24 (80)

0 (0)

1 (3.3)

0 (0)

5 (16.7)

0 (0)

An. parensis

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Anopheles spp.

9 (69.2)

0 (0)

2(15.4)

1 (7.7)

1 (7.7)

0 (0)

Ntaja

An. arabiensis

16 (43.2)

6 (16.2)

4 (10.8)

1 (2.7)

9 (24.4)

1 (2.7)

An. funestus

75 (88.2)

3 (3.5)

1 (1.2)

0 (0)

6 (7.1)

0 (0)

An. gambiae

47 (79.7)

0 (0)

5 (8.5)

0 (0)

7 (11.8)

0 (0)

An. parensis

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (100)

0 (0)

Anopheles spp.

5 (45.5)

0 (0)

5 (45.5)

0 (0)

1 (9.0)

0 (0)