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Table 3 Summary of number of sites and species involved in the assessment of sporozoites and number of sites where these species had the highest proportions of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes.

From: Changes in contributions of different Anopheles vector species to malaria transmission in east and southern Africa from 2000 to 2022

Period

Species

Number of sites where species were tested

Range of proportion of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes (%)

Median (%)

Number of sites with highest sporozoite proportions for each tested species

2000–2010

Anopheles gambiae s.l.

23

0.02–7.7

1.5

11

Anopheles gambiae s.s.

15

0–15.3

2.8

9

Anopheles merus

4

0–17.4

2.2

2

Anopheles arabiensis

22

0–11.1

0.3

4

All Anopheles gambiae complex

64

0–17.4

1.4

26

Anopheles funestus s.l.

37

0–6.3

1.1

17

Anopheles funestus s.s.

5

0–5.2

3.0

3

All Anopheles funestus complex

42

0–6.3

1.5

20

Anopheles coustani

2

0

− 

0

Anopheles rufipes

1

0

− 

0

Anopheles mascarensis

3

0–0.7

0

0

Other Anopheles

3

0

− 

0

Sites without sporozoite data

 

6

Subtotal of data points

 

52

2011–2021

Anopheles gambiae s.l.

32

0–15

1.0

12

Anopheles gambiae s.s.

16

0–13.4

2.2

5

Anopheles arabiensis

22

0–8.3

0.3

0

All Anopheles gambiae complex

70

0–15

0.8

17

Anopheles funestus s.l.

35

0–13.9

0.8

18

Anopheles funestus s.s.

22

0–26.4

3.2

15

All Anopheles funestus complex

57

0–26.4

2.0

33

Anopheles parensis

6

0–1.4

0.8

1

Anopheles coustani

16

0–7

1.1

6

Anopheles rufipes

3

0–9.1

2.9

1

Other Anopheles

6

0–7.6

0.1

0

Sites where members of Anopheles funestus s.l. and Anopheles gambiae s.l. had equal proportions of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes

 

1

Sites without sporozoite data

 

2

Subtotal of data points

 

61

  1. All An. gambiae complex and all An. funestus complex show the summary of sporozoite-infected mosquitoes of all members of each complex or group from each data point irrespective of whether they were identified to species