Table 5. Blood meal sources of the blood-fed mosquitoes collected in Malindi, Kilifi and Mombasa urban sites in coastal Kenya from November 2016 to April 2017.
Species | Site | Location | No. tested | Human (%) | Bovine (%) | Goat (%) | Chicken (%) | Unidentified (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ae. aegypti | Kilifi | Outdoor | 4 | 3 (75) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (25) |
Indoor | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | ||
Malindi | Outdoor | 9 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 9 (100) | |
Mombasa | Indoor | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
Cx. quinquefasciatus | Kilifi | Outdoor | 7 | 2 (28.6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (28.6) | 3 (42.9) |
Indoor | 19 | 11(57.9) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (5.3) | 7 (36.8) | ||
Malindi | Indoor | 73 | 22(30.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (4.1) | 48 (65.8) | |
Mombasa | Outdoor | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
Indoor | 43 | 7 (16.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 36 (83.7) | ||
Cx. univittatus | Malindi | Indoor | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (100) |
Mombasa | Indoor | 2 | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | |
Total | 161 | 48(29.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 6 (3.7) | 107(66.5) |