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Table 5 Anopheles gambiae survival after to clay tiles

From: Storage and persistence of a candidate fungal biopesticide for use against adult malaria vectors

Time after exposure

Treatment

Median Lethal Time in days (95% C.I.)

Log rank statistic (Significance compared to control)

Time to 80% mortality days (± 1 SEM)

Day 1

Control

Not achieved

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Not achieved

B. bassiana

5.0 (4.81-5.19)

209.0 (P < 0.001)

5.8 (± 0.48)

Month 1

Control

Not achieved

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Not achieved

B. bassiana

4.0 (3.85-4.15)

185.9 (P < 0.001)

4.5 (± 0.29)

Month 2

Control

Not achieved

---------

Not achieved

B. bassiana

5.0 (4.72-5.28)

208.1 (P < 0.001)

6.3 (± 0.25)

Month 3

Control

Not achieved

---------

Not achieved

B. bassiana

6.0 (5.71-6.29)

219.6 (P < 0.001)

7.0 (± 0.00)

Month 4

Control

Not achieved

---------

Not achieved

B. bassiana

8.0 (7.53-8.47)

236.9 (P < 0.001)

9.5 (± 0.65)

Month 5

Control

Not achieved

---------

Not achieved

B. bassiana

10.0 (9.48-10.52)

155.4 (P < 0.001)

9.5 (± 0.65)

Month 6

No assessments made

Month 7

Control

Not achieved

---------

Not achieved

B. bassiana

11.0 (10.04-11.96)

55.5 (P < 0.001)

Not achieved

  1. ‘Not achieved’ indicates that the desired level of mortality (Median Lethal Time or 80%) was not reached before the end of the 14 day monitoring period.