Table 1 Susceptibility of six Amazonian Anopheles species fed with blood samples obtained from malaria-infected patients.

From: Amazonian Anopheles with low numbers of oocysts transmit Plasmodium vivax sporozoites during a blood meal

Species

Mosquitoes dissected

IR (%)

p value

Oocysts per mosquito (Min–Max)

p value

Mosquitoes dissected

Sporozoites per mosquito (Min–Max)

p value

An. aquasalis (ref)

140

76.42

39.18 (0–238)

140

390 (25–1000)

An. darlingi

50

76

0.9477

39.47 (0–218)

0.8273

50

610 (375–800)

0.3051

An. nuneztovari s.l

30

20

0.0003

2 (0–3)

 < 0.0001

27

204 (150–357)

0.4928

An. triannulatus s.l

116

15.51

 < 0.0001

5.16 (0–36)

 < 0.0001

96

141 (25–294)

0.0089

An. evansae

64

7.81

 < 0.0001

14 (0–45)

0.2158

40

88 (25–150)

0.0065

An. benarrochi s.l

20

5

3 (0–3)

20

30 (30–30)

  1. Ref reference; IR Infection rate; ‡: not included in the analysis.