Table 4 Bloodmeal sources of Anopheles mosquito species by site and method of collection in Bure district, Ethiopia, from July 2015 to June 2016
Species | Total tested, negative and positive for blood ELISA | Numbers of tested (by LTs and PSCs) positive for blood antigen (%) | Single bloodmeals (by LTs) | Mixed bloodmeals (both human and bovine bloodmeals) | Overall (single + mixed) numbers and % from LTs only | |||||||||||
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Total tested specimens from | Total LTs | LTs | PSCs | Human only, n (%) | Bovine only, n (%) | LTs, n (%) | PSC, n (%) | HBI, n (%) | BBI, n (%) | |||||||
Testedunknow (%) | Tested positive (%) | In | Out | n (%) | ||||||||||||
n (%) | n (%) | In | Out | In | Out | In | Out | Â | Â | Â | ||||||
LTs | PSCs | |||||||||||||||
An. arabiensis | 208 | 1 | 11 (5.3) | 197 (94.7) | 124 (59.6) | 73 (35) | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 | 6 (2.9) | 0 | 118 (56.7) | 73 (35.1) | 0 (0.0) | 191 (91.8) | 197 (94.7) |
An. funestus | 213 | 4 | 9 (4.2) | 204 (95.8) | 117 (54.9) | 87 (40.8) | 4 (100) | 0 | 0 | 9 (4.2) | 0 | 108 (50.7) | 87 (40.8) | 4 (100) | 195 (91.5) | 204 (95.8) |
An. coustani | 122 | 1 | 9 (7.4) | 113 (92.6) | 60 (49.2) | 53 (43.4) | 1 (100) | 2 (1.6) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | 4 (3.3) | 57 (46.7) | 49 (40.2) | 1 (100) | 108 (88.5) | 111 (91) |
An. squamosus | 54 | 0 | 3 (5.6) | 51 (94.4) | 24 (44.4) | 27 (50) | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 (22.2) | 24 (44.4) | 15 (27.8) | 0 (0.0) | 39 (72.2) | 51 (94.4) |
An. cinereus | 12 | 2 | 2 (16.7) | 10 (83.3) | 6 (50) | 4 (33.3) | 1 (50) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 (50) | 4 (33.3) | 1 (50) | 10 (83.3) | 10 (83.3) |
All total | 609 (100) | 8 (100) | 34 (5.6) | 575 (94.4) | 331 (54.3) | 244 (40.1) | 6 (75) | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 16 (2.6) | 16 (2.6) | 313 (51.4) | 228 (37.4) | 6 (75) | 543 (89.2) | 573 (94.1) |