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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Entomol. 2004 Aug;29(3):210–213. doi: 10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.00410.x

Table 1.

Comparison of number of oocysts developed in insecticide resistant and susceptible Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.

An. stephensi
species
Mouse Prevalence of
infection
Arithmetic mean
of oocysts
Arithmetic mean
of oocysts per group
Probability
(P=0.05)
BEECH 1 5.3% 16±11 (n=23) 14 P=0.41
2 8% 15±12 (n=25)
3 9.2% 13±10 (n=30)
4 7.8% 14±11 (n=29)
DUBS-R 1 5.3% 20±18 (n=27) 16
2 8% 16±18 (n=28)
3 9.2% 14±9 (n=25)
4 7.8% 13±9 (n=35)

Each replicate experiment used different batches of 25 mosquitoes from each strain, which were fed on the same infected mouse (1–4). The probability indicating whether the number of oocysts in the midgut of each strain are similar was determined by Student's t-test.