Effects of fungal infection on feeding and survival of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) on plant sugars

Parasites & Vectors

Table 4 Proportion of uninfected and fungus-exposed An. gambiae mosquitoes that tested positive for sugar within 32 hr after feeding on Ricinus communis for 12 hr

Sex	Days post-exposure	N	% mosquitoes sugar positive		χ ²	P	Percent (± S.E) infection
Sex	Days post-exposure	N	Uninfected	Fungus-exposed	χ ²	P	Percent (± S.E) infection
Male	1	4	45	52	1.96	0.161	73.0 ± 3.87 (146)
Female	1	4	38.5	58	15.29	0.001	78.0 ± 4.16 (156)
Male	3	4	43.5	43	0.01	0.920	81.0 ± 1.0 (162)
Female	3	4	52.5	53	0.01	0.920	85.0 ± 2.08 (170)

Males and females were tested one and three d post-exposure.
Statistical significance (P value) between the number of uninfected and fungus-infected mosquitoes in each category of sugar quantity imbibed was calculated by Chi square (χ ²) test. Each treatment tested 200 mosquitoes.

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