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Table 3 Sporozoite infection rates of anophelines in three highland villages of south-central Ethiopia, July 2008- June 2010

From: Blood meal sources and entomological inoculation rates of anophelines along a highland altitudinal transect in south-central Ethiopia

Villages and parameters

An. arabiensis

An. pharoensis

An. demeilloni

An. christyi

An. cinereus

Total

 

CDC

PSC

CDC

PSC

CDC

PSC

CDC

PSC

CDC

PSC

 

Hobe

No. tested

300

416

71

2

0

0

1

0

1

0

791

No. PvS+ (%)

9 (3)

3 (0.7)

1 (1.4)

1 (50)

0

0

0

0

0

0

14 (1.8)

No. PfS+ (%)

1 (0.3)

1 (0.2)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2 (0.3)

Dirama

No. tested

40

58

4

1

12

0

3

2

1

3

124

No. PvS+ (%)

1 (2.5)

1 (1.7)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2 (1.6)

No. PfS+ (%)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Wurib

No. tested

4

1

1

0

85

22

45

10

28

6

202

No. PvS+ (%)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

No. PfS+ (%)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

No. tested

344

475

76

3

97

22

49

12

30

9

1117

No. PvS+ (%)

10 (2.9)

4 (0.8)

1 (1.3)

1 (33)

0

0

0

0

0

0

16 (1.4)

No. PfS+ (%)

1 (0.3)

1 (0.2)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2 (0.3)

Overall

No. tested

819

 

79

 

119

 

61

 

39

 

1117

No. PvS+ (%)

14 (1.7)

 

2 (2.5)

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

16 (1.4)

No. PfS+ (%)

2 (0.2)

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

2 (0.3)

  1. PvS+ (%)= number P. vivax sporozoite positive (rate in percent) ; PfSR (%) = number P. falciparum sporozoite positive (rate in percent).