Table 2.
Description of the gametocytaemia used for each of the three standard membrane feeding assays (SMFA), number of days kept post blood feeding, number of mosquitoes processed by quantitative PCR (qPCR), % prevalence, and the intensity of infection described as the median and interquartile range (IQR) of the number of parasite genomes per μl of DNA extract present in infected mosquitoes, excluding mosquitoes with no infection
| SMFA | Estimated gametocytaemia | Day post- infectious blood meal | No. mosquitoes tested (n = 634) |
Positive (N = 423) |
% prevalence of infection | Intensity of infection: median number of parasite genomes and IQR. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1% | 7 | 175 | 105 | 60.0% | 680 (283–1625) |
| 14 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | ||
| 2 | 0.1% | 7 | 104 | 73 | 70.2% | 456 (67–2052) |
| 14 | 99 | 47 | 47% | 516 (211–6081) | ||
| 3 | 0.1% | 7 | 114 | 85 | 74.6% | 2995 (3210–8881) |
| 14 | 142 | 113 | 80% | 10,114 (2540–29,145) |