Table 4. Variation of blood meals number taken on hosts along the study period.
| Month | Total | Single meals (%) | Mixed meals (%) |
Unidentified (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goat | Sheep | Cattle | Human | Dog | Horse | Bird | ||||
| July | 7 | 2 (28.57) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (71.43) | 0 (0) |
| August | 294 | 37 (12.59) | 13 (4.42) | 13 (4.42) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 60 (20.41) | 6 (2.04) | 84 (28.57) | 81 (27.55) |
| September | 56 | 3 (5.36) | 4 (7.14) | 3 (5.36) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 7 (12.5) | 0 (0) | 31 (55.36) | 8 (14.29) |
| October | 59 | 3 (5.09) | 5 (8.47) | 1 (1.69) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 6 (10.17) | 0 (0) | 36 (61.02) | 8 (13.56) |
| November | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Total | 416 | 45 (10.81) | 22 (5.28) | 17 (4.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 73 (17.55) | 6 (1.44) | 156 (37.5) | 97 (23.32) |