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. 2023 Nov 7;16:408. doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-06019-1

Table 3.

Summary of number of sites and species involved in the assessment of sporozoites and number of sites where these species had the highest proportions of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes.

Period Species Number of sites where species were tested Range of proportion of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes (%) Median (%) Number of sites with highest sporozoite proportions for each tested species
2000–2010 Anopheles gambiae s.l. 23 0.02–7.7 1.5 11
Anopheles gambiae s.s. 15 0–15.3 2.8 9
Anopheles merus 4 0–17.4 2.2 2
Anopheles arabiensis 22 0–11.1 0.3 4
All Anopheles gambiae complex 64 0–17.4 1.4 26
Anopheles funestus s.l. 37 0–6.3 1.1 17
Anopheles funestus s.s. 5 0–5.2 3.0 3
All Anopheles funestus complex 42 0–6.3 1.5 20
Anopheles coustani 2 0 −  0
Anopheles rufipes 1 0 −  0
Anopheles mascarensis 3 0–0.7 0 0
Other Anopheles 3 0 −  0
Sites without sporozoite data 6
Subtotal of data points 52
2011–2021 Anopheles gambiae s.l. 32 0–15 1.0 12
Anopheles gambiae s.s. 16 0–13.4 2.2 5
Anopheles arabiensis 22 0–8.3 0.3 0
All Anopheles gambiae complex 70 0–15 0.8 17
Anopheles funestus s.l. 35 0–13.9 0.8 18
Anopheles funestus s.s. 22 0–26.4 3.2 15
All Anopheles funestus complex 57 0–26.4 2.0 33
Anopheles parensis 6 0–1.4 0.8 1
Anopheles coustani 16 0–7 1.1 6
Anopheles rufipes 3 0–9.1 2.9 1
Other Anopheles 6 0–7.6 0.1 0
Sites where members of Anopheles funestus s.l. and Anopheles gambiae s.l. had equal proportions of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes 1
Sites without sporozoite data 2
Subtotal of data points 61

All An. gambiae complex and all An. funestus complex show the summary of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes of all members of each complex or group from each data point irrespective of whether they were identified to species