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Table 2 Results of Plasmodium falciparum ELISA screening and human blood indices

From: Feeding rates of malaria vectors from a prototype attractive sugar bait station in Western Province, Zambia: results of an entomological validation study

	P. falciparum ELISA results
Species¹	Negative	Positive	Sporozoite Rate (%)	% of all sporozoite positives	Human Blood Index²
An. funestus s.s	2,024	66	3.16	94.3	0.70
An. arabiensis	1,042	2	0.19	2.9	0.65
An. squamosus	977	2	0.20	2.9	0.06
An. coustani	575	0	0.00	–	0.13
An. gambiae s.s	22	0	0.00	–	1.00
An. leesoni	56	0	0.00	–	0.31
An. maculupalpis	795	0	0.00	–	0.02
An. parensis	56	0	0.00	–	0.09
An. pretoriensis	39	0	0.00	–	0.00
An. quadriannulatus	13	0	0.00	–	0.00
An. rivulorum	3	0	0.00	–	0.50
An. rivulorum-like	1	0	0.00	–	0.00

¹Of the 70 total sporozoite positive samples, 5 did not produce amplicons with mosquito species identification primers. In this table, these specimens were included on the basis of their corresponding morphological IDs: 4 An. funestus s.l. and 1 An. gambiae s.l
²Proportion of all blood meals that were human

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