Genotyping of Anopheles mosquito blood meals reveals nonrandom human host selection: implications for human-to-mosquito Plasmodium falciparum transmission

Table 2 Comparison of blood meals sources containing P. falciparum parasites by sex and age of the human genotype detected in the blood meal

Human host		Infected blood meal^a	Uninfected blood meal^a	p-value
Sex	Male	92 (0.36)	164 (0.64)	0.86
Sex	Female	59 (0.35)	109 (0.65)	0.86
Age (years)	≤ 5	8 (0.57)	6 (0.43)	< 0.0001^b
	6–15	26 (0.42)	36 (0.58)
	16–30	3 (0.12)	23 (0.88)
	31–75	12 (0.15)	66 (0.85)

^aTotals differ because sex is available for every human genotype in blood meals, whereas age requires matching to an enrolled participant
^bChi-square trend analysis

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