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Table 1 Mosquito abundance, biting rates, sporozoitic index and EIR in urban and less urbanized settings

From: Impact of vegetable crop agriculture on anopheline agressivity and malaria transmission in urban and less urbanized settings of the South region of Cameroon

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Mosquito species

Abundancea

Biting ratesd (b/p/n)

Sporozoitic indexe (%)

EIRd (ib/p/n)

HAb site

RBc site

HA site

RB site

HA site

RB site

HA site

RB site

Urban settings (YaoundƩ)

An. gambiae

11,268

1744

17.4

2.7

1.7

8.3

1.39

1.13

An. funestus s.s.

6723

44

10.4

0.07

0.9

6.8

0.47

0.007

An. nili s.s.

-

374

-

0.6

-

5

-

0.03

Culicinae

539

181

0.8

0.27

-

-

-

-

Overall

18,530

2343

28.6

3.64

1.4

6.7

1.86

1.167

Less urbanized settings (Akonolinga)

An. gambiae

9911

1573

15.3

2.4

1.8

7.05

1.32

0.9

An. funestus s.s.

7185

746

11.1

1.2

1.5

8.2

0.8

0.5

An. moucheti s.s.

128

1778

0.2

2.7

5.5

7.06

0.01

0.93

An. hancocki

28

16

0.04

0.03

-

-

-

-

Culicinae

3382

323

5.2

0.5

-

-

-

-

Overall

20,634

4436

31.8

6.83

1.8

7.2

2.13

2.33

  1. aAbundance: Within 648 man-night captures
  2. bHA: Hydro-Agricultural
  3. cRB: River Bank
  4. dBiting rates and EIR are calculated over the year
  5. eELISA test was performed on part of the total number of Anopheles mosquitoes captured