Skip to main content

Table 2 Percentage mosquitoes recaptured (±95% CI) in screenhouse experiments with An. gambiae and An. arabiensis

From: Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa: prototyping and evaluation against Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles arabiensis under semi-field conditions in western Kenya

Species

Treatment

%

[95% CI]

# released

# recaptured

p values

An. gambiae

Open

70.8

[60.3–81.4]

1200

850

–

0.041

FD

54.1

[47.3–60.8]

1200

649

0.041

–

BC

38.8

[26.2–51.3]

1200

465

0.009

0.065

DM

21.3

[14.0–28.7]

1200

256

0.002

0.002

An. arabiensis

Open

45.8

[39.7–51.8]

2600

1190

–

0.020

FD

25.2

[14.9–35.4]

2600

654

0.020

–

BC

20.6

[14.4–26.9]

2600

536

<0.001

0.762

DM

22.0

[18.1–25.0]

2600

572

<0.001

0.614

  1. Treatments included two controls; open eave tubes (Open) or inserts with fluorescent dye (FD). Controls were compared to treatments with bendiocarb (BC) or deltamethrin (DM)-treated inserts using Mann–Whitney U tests