Table 1. Infection summaries.
Parasite population | Tf/µl | Gams/µl | Mosquito strain | # of midguts dissected | Oocyst range | Oocysts/Midgut Arithmetic mean # | Oocysts/Midgut Geometric Mean | Prevalence (%) |
Pf CM | 240 | 257 | Ag BF | 94 | 0–146 | 41.6 (48.3) | 18.9 | 86 |
Ag CM* | 140 | 0–117 | 44.9 (47.2) | 30 | 95 | |||
4320 | 370 | Ag BF | 58 | 0–254 | 69.7 (77.8) | 36.1 | 90 | |
Ag CM* | 112 | 0–131 | 31.6 (35.4) | 17 | 89 | |||
1110 | 107 | Ag BF | 53 | 0–152 | 44.7 (46.4) | 26 | 96 | |
Ag CM* | 108 | 0–98 | 24.5 (26.2) | 14.3 | 94 | |||
120 | 98 | Ag BF | 46 | 0–37 | 7.2 (9.7) | 3.8 | 74 | |
Ag CM* | 86 | 0–37 | 6.5 (8.1) | 3.9 | 80 | |||
30 | 68 | Ag BF | 120 | 0–29 | 3.9 (5.4) | 2.6 | 73 | |
Ag CM* | 128 | 0–16 | 4.3 (5.3) | 3.2 | 82 | |||
30 | 44 | Ag BF | 120 | 0–38 | 7.0 (9.8) | 4 | 71 | |
Ag CM* | 99 | 0–25 | 3.4 (5.3) | 2.3 | 64 | |||
690 | 23 | Ag BF | 81 | 0–17 | 2.5 (4.6) | 1.9 | 54 | |
Ag CM* | 82 | 0–13 | 2.4 (3.6) | 1.9 | 67 | |||
300 | 44 | Ag BF | 92 | 0–6 | 0.8 (2.4) | 1.2 | 33 | |
Ag CM* | 131 | 0–10 | 1.7 (2.9) | 1.6 | 59 | |||
600 | 21 | Ag BF | 66 | 0–4 | 0.3 (1.5) | 1.1 | 20 | |
Ag CM* | 36 | 0–2 | 0.3 (1.4) | 1.1 | 22 | |||
Pf BF | 180 | 54 | Ag BF* | 115 | 0–61 | 20.0 (23.7) | 11.1 | 84 |
Ag CM | 46 | 0–45 | 18.2 (19.5) | 11.4 | 93 | |||
4920 | 66 | Ag BF* | 132 | 0–59 | 16.5 (18.9) | 10 | 87 | |
Ag CM | 90 | 0–52 | 17.3 (20.0) | 11.4 | 87 | |||
1045 | 84 | Ag BF* | 22 | 0–37 | 11.6 (17.1) | 5.6 | 68 | |
Ag CM | 91 | 0–61 | 20.2 (22.1) | 15.1 | 91 | |||
2340 | 336 | Ag BF* | 64 | 0–58 | 11.5 (14.7) | 5.2 | 78 | |
Ag CM | 15 | 0–63 | 16.9 (18.1) | 9.8 | 93 | |||
- | 150 | Ag BF* | 73 | 0–60 | 9.4 (16.8) | 3.6 | 56 | |
Ag CM | 66 | 0–51 | 5.4 (11.8) | 2.2 | 45 | |||
480 | 30 | Ag BF* | 75 | 0–36 | 9.1 (10.5) | 5.9 | 88 | |
Ag CM | 93 | 0–70 | 16.7 (17.7) | 12.6 | 95 | |||
3060 | 48 | Ag BF* | 39 | 0–43 | 8.3 (11.6) | 4.5 | 72 | |
Ag CM | 34 | 0–33 | 11.4 (12.5) | 7.5 | 91 | |||
2000 | 72 | Ag BF* | 5 | 2–6 | 4.2 | 4 | 100 | |
Ag CM | 24 | 0–60 | 21.0 (24.0) | 17 | 88 | |||
- | 48 | Ag BF* | 45 | 0–19 | 3.4 (4.7) | 2.3 | 73 | |
Ag CM | 23 | 0–32 | 7.6 (9.2) | 4.4 | 83 | |||
1140 | 48 | Ag BF* | 24 | 0–8 | 2.5 (4.6) | 2 | 54 | |
Ag CM | 86 | 0–45 | 9.1 (12.0) | 4.4 | 76 | |||
- | 30 | Ag BF* | 73 | 0–6 | 1.5 (2.5) | 1.6 | 62 | |
Ag CM | 119 | 0–18 | 3.9 (5.2) | 2.8 | 75 | |||
1200 | 66 | Ag BF* | 36 | 0–3 | 0.4 (2.1) | 1.1 | 19 | |
Ag CM | 26 | 0–5 | 0.2 (3.0) | 1.1 | 8 | |||
- | 48 | Ag BF* | 56 | 0–4 | 0.4 (1.8) | 1.1 | 21 | |
Ag CM | 23 | 0–7 | 1.2 (2.2) | 1.4 | 57 | |||
7380 | 78 | Ag BF* | 62 | 0–3 | 0.3 (1.6) | 1.2 | 16 | |
Ag CM | 26 | 0–2 | 0.5 (1.3) | 1.1 | 35 | |||
- | 36 | Ag BF* | 102 | 0–5 | 0.3 (1.4) | 1 | 18 | |
Ag CM | 93 | 0–5 | 0.7 (2.3) | 1.2 | 30 |
Ordered according to arithmetic mean oocysts/midgut in sympatric combinations, denoted by a *. # arithmetic mean of infected mosquitoes only in brackets. Tf: trophozoites, Gams: gametocytes.