| insecticide susceptibility and vector status of natural populations of anopheles arabiensis from sudan. | species composition, blood meal source, sporozoite infection rate, insecticide resistance and the kdr mutations were investigated in the anopheles gambiae complex from 13 sentinel sites in central sudan. species identification revealed that 89.5% of 960 specimens were a. arabiensis. of 310 indoor resting females, 88.1% were found to have fed on humans, while 10.6% had fed on bovines. the overall sporozoite infection rate from the five localities tested was 2.3%, ranging from 0 to 5.5%. insectici ... | 2008 | 18054056 |