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Table 3 Mosquito species and Plasmodium falciparum carriage

From: Fine-scale spatial and temporal variation of clinical malaria incidence and associated factors in children in rural Malawi: a longitudinal study

Mosquito species

Collected indoors

Collected outdoors

Total no. of mosquitoes

Mosquitoes with Pf sporozoites

Sporozoite rate (%)

An. arabiensis

99

160

259

14

5.4

An. funestus (s.s.)

45

33

78

15

19.2

An. gambiae (s.l.)

2

4

6

2

33.3

An. gambiae (s.s.)

2

2

4

1

25.0

An. quadriannulatus

1

3

4

0

0.0

Totals

149

202

351

32

9.1

  1. Abbreviation: Pf Plasmodium falciparum