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Table 3 Blood meal composition in female An. funestus s.l. collected in the Gembe East area in western Kenya

From: Reconsideration of Anopheles rivulorum as a vector of Plasmodium falciparum in western Kenya: some evidence from biting time, blood preference, sporozoite positive rate, and pyrethroid resistance

 

Detection method

No. examined

Human blood (%)

Cow blood (%)

Others

No. (%)

Species

An. funestus s.s.

Direct sequencing

25a

12 (48.0)

16 (64.0)

5 (20.0)

bats, dogs

PCR

69b

35 (50.7)

4 (5.8)

32 (46.4)

-

An. rivulorum

Direct sequencing

148a

24 (16.0)

145 (98.0)

24 (16.0)

bats, birds, apes, mice, bushbuck, hippopotami

PCR

89c

6 (6.7)

33 (37.1)

53 (59.6)

-

  1. a) collected in Oct 2011.
  2. b) collected in Feb 2011and Feb 2012.
  3. c) collected in Jan 2012.