Table 2.
Summary of mosquitoes collected in the dry season in East Kenya
| Study site | Kwale | Mombasa | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection methods employed (number of trap sessions)# | As; 39, BG; 12, CDC; 15, GT; 12 | As; 39, BG; 12, CDC; 15, GT; 12 | |||||
| Methods collected mosquitoes (number of trap sessions)# | As; 7, BG; 3, CDC; 10, GT; 6 | As; 33, BG; 7, CDC; 14, GT; 12 | |||||
| Collection period | January 18–20, 2012 (3 days) | January 24–26, 2012 (3 days) | |||||
| Number of houses | 13 houses | 13 houses | |||||
| Species | Physiological status | No. collected | Pools | Positive pool | No. collected | Pools | Positive pool |
| Ae. aegypti | Fed | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Unfed | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | |
| An. coustani | Fed | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| An. funestus | Fed | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| An. gambiae s.l. | Fed | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Unfed | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| An. longipulpis | Fed | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| An. rivulorum | Fed | 4 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Anopheles sp. | Male | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Cx. cinereus | Gravid | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Cx. decens | Unfed | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Gravid | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Cx. quinquefasciatus | Male | 15 | 1 | 0 | 235 | 10 | 1 |
| Fed | 30 | 2 | 0 | 105 | 6 | 0 | |
| Unfed | 19 | 1 | 0 | 375 | 13 | 0 | |
| Gravid | 64 | 4 | 0 | 129 | 7 | 0 | |
| Cx. laticinctus | Gravid | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Cx. simpsoni | Male | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Unfed | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Cx. univiittetus | Unfed | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Culex sp. | Male | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Unfed | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Mansonia sp. | Fed | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Unfed | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Others | Male | 2 | |||||
| Unfed | 3 | ||||||
| Total | 179 | 26 | 1 | 872 | 44 | 2 | |
#Abbreviations of collection methods are As aspirator, BG: BG sentinel trap, CDC:CDC light trap, GT CDC gravid trap