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Table 2 Entomological results by study arm

From: Dynamics of malaria transmission and susceptibility to clinical malaria episodes following treatment of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic carriers: results of a cluster-randomized study of community-wide screening and treatment, and a parallel entomology study

 

Intervention

Control

Mosquito species

  

  Anopheles gambiae s.l.

91.7%

92.7%

  Anopheles funestus

0.1%

0.2%

  Other Anopheles

0.6%

0.4%

  Culex

7.4%

6.5%

  Aedes

0.2%

0.2%

Anopheles gambiae s.l. composition

  

  Anopheles arabiensis

13%

14%

  Anopheles coluzzi

61%

57%

  Anopheles gambiae

26%

28%

Frequency of kdr West African mutation (SD)

0.65 (0.12)

0.71 (0.16)

Mean number of mosquitoes/house (SD)

6.30 (5.89)

5.96 (2.67)

Mean number of bites/person/night (SD)

1.12 (1.20)

1.12 (1.19)

EIR (i.e. cumulative number of infective bites/person/year)

39.46

31.42