Table 1.
Repartition per bioclimatic domain of the species of the Anopheles gambiae complex in Madagascar.
Number of mosquitoes | Results of PCR tests | |||||||||||
Bioclimatic domains | Number of localities | Ind1 | Out2 | IR3 | Larva4 | LiTrap5 | MTPS6 | An. gambiae | An. arabiensis | An. merus | Neg7 | Total |
Humid | 13 | 387 | 137 | 28 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 598 (93%) | 17 (3%) | 0 | 28 (4%) | 643 |
Subhumid | 14 | 550 | 200 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 77 (9%) | 762 (90%) | 0 | 9 (1%) | 848 |
Dry | 4 | 82 | 57 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 (34%) | 135 (62%) | 1 (0.5%) | 8 (4%) | 218 |
Suharid | 7 | 115 | 73 | 127 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 1 (0.3%) | 278 (78%) | 79 (22%) | 0 | 358 |
Total | 38 | 1134 | 467 | 311 | 24 | 110 | 21 | 750 (36.3%) | 1192 (57.7%) | 80 (3.9%) | 45 (2.1%) | 2067 |
1 Ind : indoor man biting mosquitoes 2 Out : outdoor man biting mosquitoes 3 IR : indoor resting mosquitoes 4 Larva : aquatic stages of mosquitoes 5 LiTrap : mosquitoes collected in Miniature CDC light trap 6MTPS : resting mosquitoes in Muirhead-Thomson's pit shelter 5Neg : PCR negative