Figure 3: Blood meal antibiotics increase mosquito survival and fecundity.
From: Antibiotics in ingested human blood affect the mosquito microbiota and capacity to transmit malaria
(a) Mosquito clutch size and percentage of females that laid eggs (‘Egg laying’) following PS-treated or control blood meal. Medians and distributions of egg numbers per female of one representative experiment of three are shown. (b and c) Kaplan–Maier survival plots of mosquitoes fed on human blood (b) or mice (c). In b, mosquitoes were offered three control blood meals (‘C’), three PS-treated blood meals (‘PS always’), or a PS-treated first blood meal and two control blood meals (‘PS 1st’). In c, mosquitoes were fed once on P. berghei-infected (solid lines) or naive (dashed lines) mice. Data are pooled from three (b) to four (c) independent experiments. Mosquitoes (n=50) per experiment and per condition.
