Table 2.
The annual human biting rates, sporozoite rates, and the annual entomological inoculation rates reported for all three sites and by all three methods for catching mosquitoes, and for the combined data
| Parameter | Sampling method |
Sampling site |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jinja | Kanungu | Tororo | ||
| aHBR (95% CI) |
HLC |
270 (171-391) |
1,022 (433-1,859) |
7,399 (5,349-9,726) |
| LT |
605 (485-744) |
1,460 (1,208-1,736) |
18,359 (16,711-20,133) |
|
| KDC and ET |
94 (52-149) |
849 (487-1,278) |
6,570 (5,010-8,255) |
|
| All |
537 (434-656) |
1,377 (1,155-1,621) |
16,606 (15,133-18,094) |
|
|
PfSR (95% CI) (numerator/denominator) |
HLC |
1.4% (0.03-7.5%) (1/71) |
2.6% (1.1-5.3%) (7/269) |
1.7% (1.2-2.4%) (33/1,946) |
| LT |
0.3% (0.6-1%) (11/1,812) |
1.2% (0.9-1.7%) (39/3,069) |
1.9% (1.7-2.0%) (531/28,076) |
|
| KDC and ET |
0 (0-11%) (0/31) |
0.35% (0-1.2%) (1/279) |
2.5% (1.9-3.3%) (54/2160) |
|
| All |
0.6% (0.3-1%) (12/1,914) |
1.3% (1.0-1.7%) (47/3,617) |
1.9% (1.8-2.1%) (618/32,182) |
|
| aPfEIR (95% CI) |
HLC |
3.8 (0-11.4) |
26.6 (7.6-49.4) |
125 (72.2-183) |
| LT |
3.49 (1.59-5.70) |
14.4 (9.3 -20.0) |
340 (290-394) |
|
| KDC and ET |
0 |
3.04 (0-9.1) |
164 (113-216) |
|
| All |
3.2 (1.6-5.1) |
14.2 (9.8-19.2) |
310 (267-356) |
|
| Total number of sampling days | HLC |
96 |
96 |
96 |
| LT |
1,151 |
1,163 |
1,191 |
|
| KDC and ET |
120 |
120 |
120 |
|
| All | 1,367 | 1,379 | 1,407 | |
aHBR: annual human biting rate; PfSR: Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite rate; aPfEIR: annual Plasmodium falciparum entomological inoculation rate.