An affordable, quality-assured community-based system for high-resolution entomological surveillance of vector mosquitoes that reflects human malaria infection risk patterns

Table 1 Relative sampling sensitivity of community-based (CB) and quality assurance (QA) surveys of mosquitoes with ITT, compared with QA surveys by human landing catch (HLC), as estimated by generalized linear models (GLM)

Method	Number caught	Trap nights	Locations surveyed	Mean trap nights per location	Mean Catch [95%CI]	Relative rate [95%CI]	P
*Anopheles gambiae s.l.*
CB-ITT	208	8171	615	13.29	0.026 [0.021,0.033]	0.079 [0.051,0.121]	<0.001
QA-ITT	53	931	293	3.18	0.057 [0.039,0.085]	0.182 [0.101,0.328]	<0.001
QA-HLC	187	335	240	1.39	0.560 [0.385, 0.815]	1.00*	NA
*Culex spp*
CB-ITT	287,398	8171	615	13.29	20.7 [19.3, 22.0]	0.153 [0.137, 0. 171]	<0.001
QA-ITT	35,642	931	293	3.18	27.1 [23.9, 30.8]	0.215 [0.190, 0. 243]	<0.001
QA-HLC	49,121	335	240	1.39	147.7 [133. 8,163.0]	1.00*	NA

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