Table 2. Numbers of mosquito larvae or adults used for PCR to identify Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, Kenya* .
| Subcounty | Total Anopheles larvae collected | Larvae used for PCR |
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Adults used for PCR |
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| Sample size | An. stephensi | Unamplified | Sample size | An. stephensi | Unamplified | |||
| Saku | 42 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 33 | 8 | 25 | |
| Laisamis | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | |
| Moyale | 51 | 51 | 2 | 27 | NA | NA | NA | |
| Turkana Central† | 193 | 193 | 5 | 188 | NA | NA | NA | |
*Unamplified samples are those that failed to amplify with the An. stephensi, An. gambiae, and An. funestus PCR protocols. NA, not available. †Including only a single site that was positive for An. stephensi. Five larvae were shipped to KEMRI-Wellcome Trust for sequencing.