Table 2. Sources of blood meals of P. orientalis sampled from Libo-Kemkem and Metema districts and identified by cyt b PCR-RLB and ELISA.
| Blood meal sources | District | Total (%) 491 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libo-Kemkem | Metema | ||||
| RLB = 113 | ELISA = 101 | Combined = 214 | ELISA = 277 | ||
| Bovine | 75 (66.4) | 70 (69.3) | 145 (67.8) | 138 (49.8) | 283 (57.6) |
| Human | 6 (5.3) | 2 (1.9) | 8 (3.7) | 16 (5.7) | 24 (4.9) |
| Donkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 (5.4) | 15 (3.1) |
| Dog | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1.4) | 4 (0.8) |
| Sheep/Goat* | 0 | 1 (0.99) | 1 (0.5) | 4 (1.4) | 5 (1.0) |
| Human-Bovine | 18 (15.9) | 11 (10.9) | 29 (13.6) | 5 (1.8) | 34 (6.9) |
| Human-Donkey | 0 | 1 (0.99) | 1 (0.5) | 9 (3.2) | 10 (2.0) |
| Human-Dog | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.1) | 3 (0.6) |
| Bovine-Donkey | 0 | 1 (0.99) | 1 (0.5) | 6 (2.2) | 7 (1.4) |
| Bovine-Dog | 0 | 1 (0.99) | 1 (0.5) | 9 (3.2) | 10 (2.0) |
| Bovine-Sheep/Goat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.7) | 2 (0.4) |
| Bovine-Donkey-Dog | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) |
| Unidentified | 14(12.4) | 14 (13.9) | 28 (14.0) | 65 (23.5) | 93 (18.9) |
* Since there was cross-reaction between the two antisera the results are presented as goat/sheep