Identifying the most productive breeding sites for malaria mosquitoes in The Gambia

Malaria Journal

Table 7 Mean adult Anopheles densities per habitat type and odds ratio in comparison to pools

	Adult density/m²			Regression analyses
	Mean*	95% CI		OR	95% CI		p
*Anopheles gambiae s.l.*
Pools	0.371	0.229	0.599	1.000
Rice fields at edge of floodplain close to upland	0.170	0.082	0.352	0.459	0.192	1.096	0.080
Rice fields close to the river	0.118	0.050	0.277	0.317	0.119	0.846	0.022
Floodwater close to the edge of the floodplain	0.042	0.013	0.139	0.114	0.032	0.411	0.001
Floodwater close to the river	0.040	0.012	0.130	0.107	0.030	0.385	0.001
Stream fringes	0.066	0.027	0.165	0.179	0.064	0.502	0.001
*Anopheles coustani s.l.*
Pools	0.483	0.301	0.777	1.000
Rice fields at edge of floodplain close to upland	0.635	0.408	0.989	1.314	0.686	2.515	0.410
Rice fields close to the river	0.329	0.164	0.660	0.681	0.293	1.582	0.372
Floodwater close to the edge of the floodplain	0.360	0.219	0.592	0.745	0.374	1.481	0.401
Floodwater close to the river	0.238	0.123	0.461	0.493	0.218	1.112	0.088
Stream fringes	0.209	0.128	0.341	0.431	0.218	0.854	0.016

*GEE were used to calculate mean and 95% CI, with site ID as subject units, log linked mosquito
densities and habitat type as the factor

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