Table 4 Proportion of blood-feeding preferences among the mosquitoes collected in the six villages in Taveta subcounty
From: Malaria vector bionomics in Taita-Taveta County, coastal Kenya
Species | No. Anopheles mosquitoes tested for blood-meal sources | Single host | Mixed feeding | Unidentified | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Human | Bovine | Goat | Bovine–Goat | Boven–Human | Human–Goat | Bovine–Human–Goat | |||
An. funestus | 14 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (57.1) | 3 (21.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (21.4) |
An. gambiae | 219 | 24 (11.0) | 79 (36.1) | 22 (10.0) | 15 (6.8) | 2 (0.9) | 4 (1.8) | 1 (0.5) | 72 (32.9) |
An. coustani | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (20.0) | 3 (60.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Total | 238 | 24 (10.0) | 81 (33.9) | 33 (13.8) | 18 (7.5) | 3 (1.3) | 4 (1.7) | 1 (0.4) | 75 (31.4) |