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Table 2 Sources of blood meal of Anopheles mosquitoes collected indoors and outdoors from Chano in Southwest Ethiopia from May 2009-April 2010

From: Blood meal origins and insecticide susceptibility of Anopheles arabiensis from Chano in South-West Ethiopia

Anopheles spp.

 

Blood meals sources

 

No. analysed (HBI,%)

Human N (%)

Bovine N (%)

Mixed N (%)

Unknown N (%)

An. arabiensis

2234 (44)

180 (8)

745 (33)

807 (36)

502 (22.5)

An. marshalli

656 (37)

68 (10)

308 (47)

175 (27)

105 (16)

An. garnhami

49 (37)

9 (18)

23 (47)

9 (18)

8 (16)

An. funestus group

16 (19)

0 (0.0)

6 (37.5)

3 (19)

7 (44)

An. pharoensis

7 (43)

1 (14)

0 (0.0)

2 (29)

4 (57)

An. tenebrosus

5 (20)

1(20)

1 (20)

0 (0.0)

3 (60)

Total

2967 (42)*

259 (9)

1083 (36.5)

996 (33.5)

629 (21)

  1. Mixed (human + bovine) blood meals were added to the number of human and bovine blood meals when calculating the HBI; numbers in parenthesis. Unknown blood meals are negative for human and bovine antibodies. * Overall HBI of Anopheles mosquitoes.