Table 4.
Plasmodium falciparum CSP(*) rate and Entomological Inoculation Rate (EIR) in Goulmoun (July 2006 – June 2007).
| Mosquito species |
No. of mosquitoes |
No. CSP positive |
% CSP positive (95% CI) |
Average Human Biting Rate (No. bites/man/night) |
Average number of bites from infected anophelines per man |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| per night | per year | |||||
| An. arabiensis | 7,363 | 103 | 1.4 (1.13–1.67) | 51.1 | 0.72 | 263 |
| An. funestus | 218 | 3 | 1.4 (0.03–5.45) | 1.5 | 0.02 | 7.7 |
| An. pharoensis | 1,796 | 15 | 0.8 (0.41–1.26) | 12.5 | 0.10 | 38.1 |
| An. ziemanni | 191 | 1 | 0.5 (0.00–3.77) | 1.3 | 0.01 | 2.5 |
(*) circumsporozoite protein