Table 1. Climatic conditions and Plasmodium falciparum infection in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes fed infected blood meals according to site and land use type, western Kenyan highland and lowland*.

Site	Land use type	Mean ± SD indoor temperature, °C	Mean ± SD indoor relative humidity, %	No. membrane feedings	No. feedings resulting in infection	Total no. mosquitoes dissected	Range of infection rates,† %
Highland	Forested	20.89 ± 0.39a	75.9 ± 1.8a	34	27	3,171	10.0–42.8
Highland	Deforested	22.13 ± 0.27b	60.6 ± 2.1b	34	29	3,719	10.2–40.6
Lowland	Deforested	23.90 ± 0.40c	64.7 ± 2.1b	21	19	1,749	11.0–42.4

*Superscript letters after values indicate results of Tukey-type multiple comparison tests. Values with the same superscript letter in the same column were not statistically significant (p = 0.05).
†Infection rate refers to proportion of dissected mosquitoes that were infected with P. falciparum oocysts or sporozoites.