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Table 3 Plasmodium-positive Anopheles with Wolbachia infection

From: Natural Wolbachia infection in field-collected Anopheles and other mosquito species from Malaysia

Species

No. of samples

No. of samples: stage/type of infection

No. of Wolbachia-positive samples/No. of samples

No. of samples positive for Wolbachia/Total no. of samples

An. introlatus

28

17: Plasmodium DNA-positive whole mosquito;

4: oocysts/Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen;

7: sporozoites/Plasmodium DNA-positive head/thorax

8/17 whole mosquito samples;

0/4 samples with oocysts/Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen;

4/7 samples with sporozoites/Plasmodium DNA-positive head/thorax

12/28

An. latens

2

1: oocysts;

1: Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen

1/1 sample with oocysts;

0/1 sample with Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen

1/2

An. balabacensis

2

1: sporozoites;

1: oocysts

0

0/2

An. umbrosus

2

2: oocysts

0

0/2

Total

34

17: whole mosquitoes;

9: oocysts/Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen

8: sporozoites/Plasmodium DNA-positive head/thorax

8/17 whole mosquito samples;

1/9 samples with oocysts/Plasmodium DNA-positive abdomen;

4/8 samples with sporozoites/Plasmodium DNA-positive head/thorax

13/34