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. 2017 Jul 17;16:288. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-1938-1

Table 2.

Summary of female Anopheles mosquitoes collected during PSC sampling

Number of females (%)
An. funestus An. arabiensis An. gambiae s.s. An. gambiae s.l.a An. rufipes Total
Pf sporozoite ELISA
 Negative 116 (0.93) 138 (0.99) 49 (0.92) 34 (0.97) 4 (1.00) 341 (0.96)
 Positive 9 (0.07) 1 (0.01) 4 (0.08) 1 (0.03) 0 (0.00) 15 (0.04)
Abdominal status
 Unfed 15 (0.12) 6 (0.04) 5 (0.09) 1 (0.03) 0 (0.00) 27 (0.08)
 Gravid 31 (0.25) 35 (0.25) 9 (0.17) 1 (0.03) 0 (0.00) 76 (0.21)
 Half-gravid 15 (0.12) 17 (0.12) 7 (0.13) 7 (0.20) 0 (0.00) 46 (0.13)
 Fed 63 (0.50) 81 (0.58) 32 (0.60) 26 (0.74) 4 (1.00) 206 (0.58)
 Not available 1 (0.01) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) 0 (0.00) 1 (0.00)
Blood meal host
 Human 63 (0.81) 11 (0.11) 30 (0.77) 5 (0.15) 2 (0.50) 111 (0.44)
 Cattle 2 (0.03) 30 (0.31) 1 (0.03) 14 (0.42) 1 (0.25) 48 (0.19)
 Goat 0 (0.00) 2 (0.02) 0 (0.00) 1 (0.03) 1 (0.25) 4 (0.02)
 No amplicon 6 (0.08) 28 (0.29) 4 (0.10) 4 (0.12) 0 (0.00) 42 (0.17)
 Not done 7 (0.09) 27 (0.28) 4 (0.10) 9 (0.27) 0 (0.00) 47 (0.19)

Pf, Plasmodium falciparum

aThese specimens were identified morphologically as An. gambiae species complex but not identified further by PCR