Table 4. a Geometric Mean (GM) number and the 95% confidence intervals (CI) of mosquitoes caught in the Ifakara experimental huts. whenever baffles were used compared to when no baffles were used.
Anopheles arabiensis | Total mosquitoes | |||||||||||||
Without baffles | With baffles | Relative Rate | Without baffles | With baffles | Relative Rate | |||||||||
Trap type | GM | CI | GM | CI | RR | CI | P | GM | CI | GM | CI | RR | CI | P |
CDC | 74.5 | 45.8 121.2 | 96.7 | 69.9–133.7 | 1.3 | 1.1–1.6 | 0.009 | 152.7 | 98.3–237.2 | 181.8 | 133.8–247.0 | 1.2 | 0.9–1.6 | *N.S. |
Window exit traps | 35.3 | 16.5–75.3 | 61.0 | 31.7–117.2 | 1.6 | 1.0–2.4 | 0.033 | 72.8 | 45.1–117.5 | 123.0 | 81.6–185.4 | 1.6 | 1.1–2.3 | 0.009 |
Eave exit traps | 5.89 | 3.4–10.0 | 15.4 | 8.9–26.5 | 2.90 | 1.9–4.5 | <0.001 | 8.4 | 5.0–14.1 | 24.1 | 16.4–35.4 | 2.7 | 1.9–3.8 | <0.001 |
The Relative Rate (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of the mosquito counts were calculated from Generalized Linear Models.
*N.S refers to, ‘not significantly different’.