Table 2

Proportion of human and bovine blood meals for Anopheles arabiensis and An. funestus collected at eight sites representing three agro-ecosystems in Mwea, Kenya.

An. arabiensis

An. funestus


Agro-ecosystem

Village

No. tested*

% Human

% Bovine

No. tested

% Human

% Bovine


Planned rice

Ciagi-ini

227

2.2

84.1

30

0.0

96.7

Kangichiri

240

2.1

51.7

7

14.3

71.4

Karima

265

7.5

76.6

26

11.5

88.5

Kiuria

309

6.1

78.0

48

0.0

93.8

Rurumi

214

7.9

80.4

16

6.3

93.8

Mbui-njeru

815

9.3

78.2

19

10.5

73.7

Overall

2070

6.9

75.7

146

4.8

89.7

Unplanned rice

Kiamaciri

338

11.5

73.7

11

27.3

63.6

Non-irrigated

Murinduko

134

49.3

43.3

65

72.3

9.2


* Results for indoor and outdoor collected mosquitoes were pooled together

Muriu et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:43   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-43

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