Blood meal sources at the study sites of the altitudinal transect a | ||||
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Vertebrate hosts | Santchou (750 m) | Dschang (1400 m) | Djuttitsa (1965 m) | Overall study sites (%) |
Human | 275 (5 f + 270 g) | 73 (4 f + 69 g) | 11 (9 g + 2 h) | 359 (92.5%) (9 f + 348 g + 2 h) |
Chicken | 5 (1 f + 4 g) | 5 (2 f + 3 g) | 2 (g) | 12 (3.1%) (3 f + 9 g) |
Pig | 3 (3 g) | 3 (1 f + 2 g) | 0 | 6 (1.5%) (1 f + 5 g) |
Horse | 0 | 2 (1 g + 1 h) | 3 (2 g + 1 h) | 5 (1.3%) (3 g + 2 h) |
Ovine | 0 | 2 (2 g) | 1 (g) | 3 (0.8%) (3 g) |
Bovine | 0 | 0 | 2 (g) | 2 (0.5%) (2 g) |
Dog | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mixte (Chicken+Human) | 1 (g) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.3%) (g) |
Total number of blood meals tested | 284 (6 f + 278 g) | 85 (7 f + 77 g + 1 h) | 19 (16 g + 3 h) | 388 (13 f + 371 g + 4 h) |
Human blood rate (HR) b × 100 | 96.8% | 85.9% | 57.9% | 92.5% |