Table 1.
Effect of body size on Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis development in Anopheles gambiae and An. stephensi raised on different larval nutritional quantities
| |
|
Low diet |
High diet |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Percent parasitaemia |
N
|
Proportion surviving |
Number dissected |
Oocyst infections |
N
|
Proportion surviving |
Number dissected |
Oocyst infections |
||
| Prevalence | Intensity | Prevalence | Intensity | ||||||||
|
Anopheles gambiae |
8.23 |
45 |
0.18 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
67 |
0.76 |
25 |
0.48 |
0.62 (0.48-0.75) |
| |
6.38 |
63 |
0.24 |
15 |
0.13 |
0.10 (0.03-0.16) |
65 |
0.74 |
25 |
0.60 |
0.87 (0.72-1.02) |
| |
6.05 |
61 |
0.30 |
17 |
0.18 |
0.13 (0.06-0.20) |
55 |
0.76 |
25 |
0.40 |
0.59 (0.46-0.74) |
|
Mean |
|
|
0.24 |
|
0.10 |
|
|
0.75 |
|
0.49 |
|
|
Anopheles stephensi |
20.19 |
27 |
0.93 |
25 |
0.24 |
0.22 (0.14-0.30) |
33 |
0.82 |
24 |
0.58 |
1.57 (1.34-1.80) |
| |
8.27 |
26 |
0.96 |
22 |
0.41 |
0.57 (0.42-0.72) |
37 |
0.97 |
28 |
0.36 |
0.60 (0.43-0.78) |
| Mean | 0.94 | 0.32 | 0.90 | 0.47 | |||||||
N – number of mosquitoes that took an infectious blood meal.