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Table 4 Relation between physiological age and infectivity to P. falciparum of human landing An. gambiae s.s. females caught at Adjarra and at Ifangni

From: Application of Polovodova’s method for the determination of physiological age and relationship between the level of parity and infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae s.s, south-eastern Benin

egg-laying number

Adjarra

Ifangni

 

n

CS+

%CS+

IC

n

CS+

%CS+

IC

0

18

0

0

[0–18,55]

24

0

0

[0–14,25]

1

81

0

0

[0–4,45]

86

0

0

[0–4,20]

2

14

5

35,75

[12,75-64,86]

21

7

33,33

[14,58-56,97]

3

3

2

66,67

[9,43-98,16]

4

4

100

[39,75-100]

Total

116

7

06,03

[2,46-12,04]

135

11

08,14

[04,14-14,11]

  1. n = Mosquitoes number, CS + = Positivity to circumsporozoïtique antigen, IC = Confidence interval, %CS + = Infectivity rate, 0: nulliparous, 1: uniparous, 2: biparous, 3: triparous.
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