Table 3.
Mosquitoes fed on each vertebrate host (%)* | ||||||||
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Mosquito species |
No. of mosquitoes |
Human |
Bovine |
Ovine |
Chicken |
Equine |
Dog |
% mixed bloodmeal |
An. arabiensis | 144 | 63.9 | 16.7 | 21.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 5.6 | 9.1 |
An. funestus | 53 | 90.6 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 3.9 |
An. pharoensis | 7 | 71.4 | 0.0 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.3 |
* including mixed blood meals