Table 3 Number of mosquitoes processed to identify natural infection with Plasmodium spp. using ELISA and infection rate, obtained in 70 localities of the cross-sectional study in Northwest and South Pacific regions of Colombia
Species (lineages) | Northwest region | South Pacific coast region | # Tested | Positives ELISA | Plasmodium species confirmed by PCR and infection rate | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cordoba | Nariño | Valle | ||||||||||||||
Montelibano | Puerto libertador | Tierralta | Valencia | Barbacoas | El Charco | Magui Payan | Mosquera | Olaya Herrera | Roberto Payan | Salahonda | Tumaco | Buenaventura | ||||
An. albimanus | 8 | 34 | 221 | 116 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 379 | – |  |
An. albimanus Ba | – | – | – | – | 3 | 174 |  | 3797 | 22 | 2 | 76 | 451 | 329 | 4854 | 1 | P. falciparum (a) |
An. albitarsis la | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | – |  |
An. apicimacula (NW-SPC, SPC) | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | 11 | – |  |
An. argyritarsis | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |  |
An. calderoni | – | – | – | – | 4 | 13 | – | – | 337 | 58 | 1 | 46 | – | 459 | – |  |
An. darlingi | 6 | 20 | 189 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 222 | – |  |
An. neivai s.l. | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | 1232 | 1251 | – |  |
An. neivai nr. An. neivai 4a | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | – |  |
An. nuneztovari Ca | 1025 | 786 | 1646 | 742 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 500 | 4699 | 3 | 2 P. falciparum (b); 1 P.vivax VK247 (c) |
An. pseudopunctipennis s.l. (NW, SPC) | – | – | 12 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 22 | 41 | – |  |
An. punctimacula s.l. | 4 |  | 7 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | – |  |
An. triannulatus s.l. | 21 | 28 | 24 | 17 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 90 | – |  |
Total | 1064 | 869 | 2103 | 892 | 7 | 190 | 0 | 3797 | 359 | 60 | 77 | 523 | 2086 | 12,027 | 4 | 0.03 |